''Time of Desire'' or ''The Horse Dealer's Daughters'' (Swedish: ''Hästhandlarens flickor'') is a 1954 Swedish

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directed by Egil Holmsen and starring

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, Margaretha Löwler and George Fant.Wright p.120-121 It was shot at the

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and on location around Örsundsbro in

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. It was based on a 1935 short story by

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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. In 1959, it was released on the American

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market by

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Synopsis

Two daughters of a roguish

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have very different personalities but are emotionally close. When one of them takes up with a young man she encounters it drives her sister jealous.

Cast

as Lilly Lilja * Margaretha Löwler as Ragni Lilja * George Fant as Lilja *

Birger Malmsten Birger Malmsten (23 December 1920 – 15 February 1991) was a Swedish actor. He had many roles in Ingmar Bergman's films. Selected filmography * '' South of the Highway'' (1936) – Student (uncredited) * ' (1940) – Staff Member (uncredite ...

as Algot Wiberg *

Nils Hallberg Nils Hallberg (18 September 1921 – 8 October 2010) was a Swedish actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1934 and 1974. Selected filmography * '' Andersson's Kalle'' (1934) * '' The Boys of Number Fifty Seven'' (1935) * '' The Lady Become ...

as Nils *

Marianne Löfgren Marianne Löfgren (24 February 1910 – 4 September 1957) was a Swedish actress. She played in Åke Ohberg's '' Elvira Madigan'' (1943), director Ingmar Bergman's debut ''Crisis'' in 1946, Hasse Ekman's '' Girl with Hyacinths'' (1950) and i ...

as Mrs. Johansson *

Inga Gill Inga Gill (2 May 1925 – 18 October 2000) was a Swedish film actress. She was born in Stockholm and died there in 2000, aged 75, following a thrombosis. Selected filmography * '' Affairs of a Model'' (1946) - Waitress at Gyldene Tunnan (uncre ...

as Ella * Ingemar Pallin as Paul Berger * Harry Persson as Kalle *

Wiktor Andersson Wiktor Herman "Kulörten" Andersson (19 June 1887 – 13 September 1966) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1923 and 1958. Selected filmography * '' Boman at the Exhibition'' (1923) * '' A Stolen Waltz'' ( ...

as Old-John *

Gösta Bernhard Gösta Bernhard (26 September 1910 – 4 January 1986) was a Swedish actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1936 and 1975. He also directed 17 films between 1947 and 1975. He was born in Västervik, Kalma ...

as Berg

References

Bibliography

* Wallengren, Ann-Kristin. '' Welcome Home Mr Swanson: Swedish Emigrants and Swedishness on Film''. Nordic Academic Press, 2014. * Wright, Rochelle. ''The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film''. SIU Press, 1998.

External links

* 1954 films Swedish drama films 1954 drama films 1950s Swedish-language films Films directed by Egil Holmsen 1950s Swedish films {{1950s-Sweden-film-stub