Name: Anna Lans
Genre: Drama
Released: 1950-05-19
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Viveca Lindfors, Arnold Sjöstrand, Gudrun Brost

This is a very slow and soft melodrama accentuated by soothing melodious music all through by Jules Sylvain, a great Swedish popular composer who suffers from gross underestimation. The story is of a country girl who tires of her humdrum country life at the farm and goes to town, stays with her elder sister, gets caught up with high life and meets a sailor who falls in love with her although he has to go to Valparaiso the next day. He promises to come back and asks her to wait for him, but that will take four years. In the meantime she has to make a living and tries various unsuccessful ways, until she meets an old rich man suffering from an ailing wife who never dies. She becomes his mistress and enjoys high life once again until he suddenly dies of a heart attack. She has too start from zero again and finds the way down in life too easy not to follow, but then suddenly the sailor turns up again after four years. They marry, but she never tells him of her previous immoral life, which leads to disastrous consequences.

The play-acting, the cinematography, everything is perfect, it's a visually very enjoyable film, but the main asset is the marvellous acting of Viveca Lindfors, here in the beginning of her long career, which in a few years would bring her to Hollywood.

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