THE OUTLAW AND HIS WIFE

Showings

Castro Theatre Sun, Jul 21, 2013 1:00 PM
Accompanied by the Matti Bye Ensemble

Description

Sweden, 1918, Director Victor Sjöström

Cast
Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson, Artur Rolén, Nils Aréhn

General $15 / Member $13

Produced during a renaissance in the Swedish film industry, The Outlaw and His Wife confirmed the promise of director Victor Sjöström, whose previous film, Terje Vigen, had been a big success for Svenska Biograf. Like a western with a romanticized renegade hero, The Outlaw and His Wife is the ballad of an accused thief on the run (played by Sjöström) who finds work on the farm of a generous, self-sufficient widow, and their growing attraction turns to love. When a jealous rival alerts the authorities to the thief's real identity, the couple take off together into the wilds of Iceland. (TRT: 103 mins.)