The film was shot in the summer of 1919 at the Skandiaateljén studio in the Långängen neighborhood of Stocksund, Sweden and in Sel in Norway's Gudbrand Valley.[3]
Plot
Thorbjörn and Synnöve fall in love with each other as children. He is rumored to be a fighter, and her parents consider him unfit for her. They do not meet for several years, and in the meantime Synnöve rejects many suitors. After Thorbjörn is stabbed with a knife, Synnöve's parents realize that he is not so violent after all, and they accept his proposal.
^Hjort, Mette; Lindqvist, Ursula (2016). A Companion to Nordic Cinema. New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 290.
^Segerberg, Ebba Filippa (1999). Nostalgia, Narrative, and Modernity in Swedish Silent Cinema (Dissertation). Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley. p. 8.
