''Sons of the Soil'' ( Danish: ''Borgslægtens historie'', Icelandic: ''Saga Borgarættarinnar'') is a Danish film directed and shot by

Gunnar Sommerfeldt Gunnar Sommerfeldt (4 September 1890 – 30 August 1947) was a Danish actor and film maker. In 1919 he directed ''Saga Borgarættarinnar (film), Saga Borgarættarinnar'', which was released in 1920 and was the first feature film shot in Iceland. ...

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

in 1919, based on the novel by

Gunnar Gunnarsson Gunnar Gunnarsson (18 May 1889 – 21 November 1975) was an Icelandic author who wrote mainly in Danish. He grew up, in considerable poverty, on Valþjófsstaður in Fljótsdalur valley and on Ljótsstaðir in Vopnafjörður. During t ...

. It was released in 1920, and it was the first film shot in Iceland.

Cast

Philip Bech Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...

– Vivild, banker * Stefanía Guðmundsdóttir * Guðmundur Thorsteinsson – Ormar Örlygsson *Elisabet Jacobsen – Snæbjörg *Frederik Jacobsen – Örlyg *Ove Kuhl – Örn * Karen Poulsen *

– Ketill *Inge Sommerfeldt – Danish girl * Ingeborg Spangsfeldt – Rúna

References

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* Films shot in Iceland 1920 films Danish silent films Danish black-and-white films {{denmark-silent-film-stub