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6.9/10 Letterboxd Screenplay by Victor Sjöström Running time 76 minutes Initial release 1 January 1920 Screenplay Victor Sjöström Story by Franz Grillparzer | 7.3/10 IMDb Directed by Victor Sjöström Cinematography Henrik Jaenzon Country Sweden Director Victor Sjöström Music director Rudolf Sahlberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 20, 1920 (1920-01-20) Cast Tora Teje, Tore Svennberg, Richard Lund, Jenny Tschernichin‑Larsson, Renée Björling Similar The Lass from the Stormy Cr, A Man There Was, Sons of Ingmar, Ingeborg Holm, The Outlaw and His Wife | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Klostret i sendomir the monastery of sendomir 1920 film by v sj str m
The Monastery of Sendomir (Swedish: Klostret i Sendomir) is a 1920 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1828 short story by Franz Grillparzer. It has also been released in the UK as The Secret of the Monastery. A German adaptation of the story The Monastery of Sendomir, directed by Rudolf Meinert, had been released the previous year.
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Plot
The main part of the film is told in a flashback by a monk to two visiting noblemen on their way to Warsaw in the 17th century. He tells them how a mighty count named Starschensky once ruled Sendomir (Sandomierz), but after an intrigue in which his wife was unfaithful with her own cousin he had to use all his resources to build the monastery where they are now staying. At the end it is revealed that the monk is in fact Starschensky himself.