A Dangerous Wooing
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''Ett farligt frieri'', or ''A dangerous proposal'', aka ''A dangerous wooing'' is the first
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directed by Swedish director
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in 1919. The film has been the subject of a restoration by the
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in 2010, with intertitles in Swedish and English.


Synopsis

In a small village in the Swedish mountains, all the boys are in love with Aslaugh, the daughter of rich farmer Knut Husaby. Thormund, the wealthiest farmer in the village proposes to marry his son Ola to Aslaug. Husaby is in favour of this marriage but asks his daughter whether she agrees. Aslaug refuses because she is in love with Tore Naesset, a small-holder's son. Her father is violently opposed to such a wedding and sends her to his summer farm, high in the mountains, hoping she'll change her mind. Tore manages to join Aslaug at the summer farm but on his way back on the only available road which passes by Husaby farm, he gets a hard beating from Husaby who lets him go with an ironic promise: "If next Saturday you manage to slip past the Husaby wolf and his cubs, the girl will be yours". The following week, Tore tries to sneak past the farm without success. He then decides to climb the steep cliff which borders the summer farm on the river side. After nearly falling, he manages to reach the top, exhausted. Husaby, impressed by his courage, agrees to let him marry Aslaug.


Cast

* Lars Hanson - Tore Næsset * Gull Cronvall - Aslaug * Theodor Blick - Knut Husaby, Aslaug's father * Hjalmar Peters - Thormund, rich farmer * Kurt Welin - Ola, Thormund's son * Hugo Tranberg - Sigurd Husaby * Gösta Cederlund - Eyvind Husaby * Hilda Castegren - Tore's mother * Torsten Bergström - fiddler


Production

The film was based on Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novella ''A dangerous courtship'', published in 1856. It was filmed at AB Skandia studios in Långängen with exteriors from the areas around the Hardanger Fjord in
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. It premièred on 26 December 1919 in Gothenburg and Stockholm.


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''Ett farlig frieri (1919) (A dangerous proposal)''
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A Cinema History
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dangerous Wooing 1910s historical films 1919 films Swedish silent films Swedish black-and-white films Films based on short fiction Swedish historical films 1910s Swedish-language films