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Home from Babylon
Directed byAlf Sjöberg
Written bySigfrid Siwertz
Alf Sjöberg
Based onHome from Babylon by Sigfrid Siwertz
StarringGerd Hagman
Arnold Sjöstrand
Georg Rydeberg
CinematographyKarl-Erik Alberts
Edited byTage Holmberg
Music byMiff Görling
Arthur Österwall
Seymour Österwall
Production
company
Wivefilm
Distributed byWivefilm
Release date
  • 23 December 1941 (1941-12-23)
Running time
106 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

Home from Babylon (Swedish: Hem från Babylon) is a 1941 Swedish drama film directed by Alf Sjöberg and starring Gerd Hagman, Arnold Sjöstrand and Georg Rydeberg.[1][2][3] It was based on a 1923 novel of the same title by Sigfrid Siwertz.[4] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Hem från Babylon". Swedish Film Database. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  2. ^ Gustafsson p.37
  3. ^ Qvist & Von Bagh p.131
  4. ^ Goble p. 431

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Gustafsson, Fredrik. The Man from the Third Row: Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman. Berghahn Books, 2016.
  • Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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