The Clang of the Pick
Directed byArne Mattsson
Written byVolodja Semitjov
Based onThe Clang of the Pick by Hans Hergin
Produced byLennart Landheim
StarringVictor Sjöström
Edvin Adolphson
Margit Carlqvist
CinematographySven Thermænius
Edited byCarl-Olov Skeppstedt
Music bySven Sköld
Production
company
Distributed byNordisk Tonefilm
Release date
  • 15 September 1952 (1952-09-15)
Running time
87 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

The Clang of the Pick (Swedish: Hård klang) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Victor Sjöström, Edvin Adolphson and Margit Carlqvist.[1] It was shot at the Kungsholmen Studios of Nordisk Tonefilm in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindström.

Synopsis

The village of Brovik on the coast of Småland in southern Sweden is transformed from a small agricultural settlement into a booming port due to the development of a granite quarrying by a German industrialist Klaus Willenhart in the late nineteenth century. By the First World War his son Frans has taken over the business and identifies strongly with the local community in neutral Sweden. By contrast his father, wife Vera and brother Gert are strongly committed to the German Empire and the cause of victory. Vera leaves Frans and goes with her brother-in-law, an on officer in the Kaiser's army, to work as a nurse.

Frans bonds with Minka, the niece of a local stonemason who bitterly resents the wealthy German family, and they ultimately become lovers. When a naval mine drifts towards the village, Frans detonates it with a rifle and is fatally wounded by shrapnel.

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References

  1. ^ Sundholm p.294

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Films directed by Arne Mattsson
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