The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf

  • Documentary
  • TV Movie
12/19/2020
53

Storyline

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

Director:
André Schäfer
Writer:
André Schäfer
    • copenhagen, denmark
    • nobel prize
    • biography
    • stockholm, sweden
    • lesbian relationship
    • portrait of an artist
    • swedish folklore
    • suffragist movement

    Cast

    • Hanna Schygulla
      Self - Quote Reader (voice)
    • Mats Malm
      Self - Swedish Academy Spokesperson
    • Thomas Steinfeld
      Self - Book Critic
    • Anna Nordlund
      Self - Biographer
    • Holger Wolandt
      Self - Biographer
    • Elisabeth Lagerlöf
      Self - Lagerlöf's Grandniece
    • Monika Hilding
      Self - Lagerlöf's Grandniece
    • Hans-Viktor Krolovitsch
      Self - Parson
    • Ann-Charlotte Knochenhauer
      Self - Librarian
    • Annacari Jadling-Ohlsson
      Self - Guide
    • Elisabet Cassel
      Self - Teacher
    • Anna-Karin Palm
      Self - Writer
    • Eva Bonnier
      Self - Book Editor
    • Selma Lagerlöf
      Self - Writer (archive footage)

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