Jomfru Trofast

Jomfru Trofast (Miss Faithful) is a Norwegian film from 1921[1][2] based on a folk play with a script by Vilhelm Krag.[3][4] The film is a story from Southern Norway and was directed by Rasmus Breistein.[1][4] The sets were designed by Egil Sætren. The film is fully preserved, and it has been restored and digitized.[2]

Jomfru Trofast
Directed byRasmus Breistein
Produced byEdgar Bekkevold
Written byVilhelm Krag
Rasmus Breistein
Based onJomfru Trofast: folkekomedie i 4 akter, by Vilhelm Krag
StarringEdvard Drabløs
Aasta Nielsen
Henrik Børseth
Henny Skjønberg
Lars Tvinde
Eugen Skjønberg
Music byAdolf Kristoffer Nielsen
CinematographyGunnar Nilsen-Vig
Edited byGunnar Nilsen-Vig
Distributed byKommunenes Filmcentral
Release date
  • 1921 (1921)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryNorway
LanguageNorwegian

Plot

Tone, who lives with her uncle Albertus, is in love with the Tellef, a poor sailor. Albertus sends Tellef to sea to prevent the relationship from developing. Tone becomes upset and promises eternal faithfulness to Tellef, and she rejects every suitor that comes to her. Albertus sends a letter to Tellef, who is in Pensacola, Florida, and says that Tone is planning to marry the bailiff. Tellef leaves the ship he is working on and then the ship is wrecked, and so everyone assumes that he has died. Tone holds herself to her promise of fidelity and moves in with Tellef's mother. A few years later, Tellef meets a friend from home in Pensacola, and he tells Tellef that the ship sank, Tone is still unmarried, and Albertus lied to him. Tellef travels home immediately, arriving just in time to prevent a foreclosure on his mother's house, and he and Tone are reunited.

Cast

References
  1. IMDb: Jomfru Trofast
  2. Hansen, Svend Einar. 2010. Munken-premiere i reprise 89 år etter. Ostlands-Posten (October 18).
  3. Krag, Vilhelm. 1906. Jomfru Trofast: folkekomedie i 4 akter. Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Company.
  4. Waldekranz, Rune. 1985. Filmens historia: de första hundra åren från zoopraxiscope till video, vol. 1: Pionjäråren 1880–1920. Stockholm: Norstedt, p. 551.


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