Realm of Man


Realm of Man is a 1949 Swedish drama film directed by Gösta Folke and starring Ulf Palme, Anita Björk and Erik Hell. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sven Edvin Salje. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindström. Location shooting took place around Jämshög.

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"...the film adheres fairly well to the style of a decent folk story. It may not sound very funny, but it is honest and upright -- as the saying goes. There is a serious dramatic conflict in the brotherly dispute that Sven Edvin Salje colorfully depicts, a conflict with deep roots in literature. He has modernized it, even if the actualization does not extend further than the time before the Sköld Land Acquisition Act.", wrote a review in the Dagens Nyheter.
A review in Aftonbladet stated:"Folke is uneven and his film is uneven. Between the top sections there are longings here that are unforgivable. Sometimes you sit impatiently and mumble to yourself: Well, isn't the line coming soon?"
"A year ago, the first adaptation of a book by Salje was released in a film version, På dessa sküldror, as a sympathetic departure from the mediocrity that has long been tolerated in the depiction of the common people on film, free from both snuff-gub comedy and outdated folk song romanticism. This new film has the same convincing everyday tone, the same credible plot, the same authenticity in the setting -- but it does not flow by far as easily, as smoothly and rhythmically as its predecessor. There are longings here, irrelevant details that are not incorporated into the plot and too unmediated transitions. For those who have not seen the first part -- and avoid making unfavorable comparisons -- the development of the plot probably offers some ambiguities", found the ''Svenska Dagbladet.''