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social
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directed by
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, based on a
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play by Nils Krok. It caused great debate in Sweden about
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, which led to changes in the
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laws. It is said to be based on a true story.Summary at Svenskfilmdatabas.se
(in Swedish) '' Swedish Film Institute''


Synopsis

Sven Holm and his wife Ingeborg are happily married with three children, and are about to open a shop in Stockholm. They open the shop, but Sven contracts
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, and dies. Ingeborg initially tries to run the shop by herself, but when she fails, and develops a debilitating ulcer, she turns to the poorhouse for help. The poorhouse board does not grant her enough assistance to survive outside the workhouse. She has to sell the shop and her house, and board the three children out to foster families. After some time, Ingeborg reads in a letter that her daughter, Valborg, is sick. The poorhouse can't finance a visit, but the determined Ingeborg escapes at night, and, after being chased by police, gets to see the child. When she returns to the poorhouse, the manager is furious that they must pay a fine for the trouble she caused. Later on, Ingeborg is offered a chance to see her younger son, this time with the poorhouse's approval. When the child doesn't recognize her, she is devastated. She tries to make a doll from her scarf for the child to play with, but he cries and turns to the foster mother. This hits Ingeborg so hard that she loses her sanity. She is relegated to the insane women's ward of the workhouse, cradling a plank of wood as if it was one of her children. After fifteen years, her elder son, Erik, now a sailor, visits her without knowing of his mother's psychosis. He becomes desperate when Ingeborg doesn't recognize him - but when he shows her a youthful photograph of herself, which features the inscription "To Erik from mother", her sanity returns. With the return of her family comes the return of Ingeborg's self.


Cast

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Hilda Borgström Hilda Teresia Borgström (13 October 1871 – 2 January 1953) was a Swedish stage and film actress. Biography Born in 1871 in Stockholm, Borgström made her film debut in 1912. She starred in leading parts in Victor Sjöström's silent fi ...
as Ingeborg Holm * Aron Lindgren as Sven Holm / Erik Holm as an adult * Erik Lindholm as Employee in Shop * Georg Grönroos as Poorhouse Superintendent * William Larsson as Police Officer *
Richard Lund Richard Lund (9 July 1885 – 27 September 1960) was a Swedish film and theatre actor. He made his stage debut at Stora Teatern in Gothenburg in 1904 and later appeared in more than 70 films between 1912 and 1952, making his most important ...
as Doctor * Carl Barcklind as House Doctor * Bertil Malmstedt as Erik Holm as a child


References


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* * * Ingmar Bergman o
Ingeborg Holm and other films by Sjöström
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingeborg Holm Swedish silent feature films 1913 films Films directed by Victor Sjöström 1913 drama films Swedish black-and-white films Swedish drama films Silent drama films