"SONS OF INGMAR Act V." ""I suppose she's locked up now?"" ""It was in court I saw her last --" (Judge..." "Gustaf Ranft)" ""She seemed so soft, and she was crying because she didn't have her child."" ""It is all my fault." "I have only myself and my evil thoughts to blame."" ""I am the guilty one because I forced myself on her!"" ""I consider her so blameless that" ""if she just changed her feelings toward me, I would marry her that same day!"" ""Everyone needs to go out while the court deliberates!"" ""Is it true what you said in there" ""that you would marry her if only she changed her feelings towards you?"" ""I said it just so that she would get a milder sentence."" ""You don't love her then?"" ""No, she's killed all love for me."" ""If Ingmar had been as wise as his father, he would have talked with her" ""and known what she was fretting over."" ""If it had been during Big Ingmar's time, the girl who found her" ""would have been kept quiet so that nothing had come out."" ""Yes, then he would not have had to marry her." ""He could have sent her home to her parents" ""and had the banns annulled on the grounds that she wasn't happy there."" ""...and the district court therefore deems it just" ""to sentence you to three years hard labor."" ""You must forgive me all the pain I've caused you, Ingmar."" ""Father, you don't think that I need do anything for her" ""when she comes out this fall?"" ""What would you do?" "Would you marry her?"" ""Yes, I probably would."" ""It will be difficult for her this fall when she is sitting at home." ""They won't be too keen on her at Bergskog;" ""they think that she has disgraced them." ""She can hardly dare go to church either -- it will be hard for her all around."" ""But it isn't so easy for me to marry her." "It's not nice to have a big farm" ""and a wife that the farm hands and maids look down upon." ""Mother wouldn't like that either." ""And I doubt that we could invite respectable folk over any more," ""not even to a wedding or a funeral."" ""Father, you see, I lose a lot if I take her." ""People have thought I was crazy before," ""they will think so even more after this."" ""But this is what I also think:" ""The Ingmars have always tried to walk in God's paths." ""We Ingmars don't need to fear men, we just have to walk in God's paths."" ""This is a difficult question, Ingmar," ""I think that I'll go in and ask the other Ingmarssons."" "End of part V." ""Now let it be as God wills."" ""May God stand by me!"" "In the meantime, Ingmar Ingmarsson wasn't the only one who was out in that early morning hour " "It wasn't difficult to see what kind of job he had." "He often turned up, as itinerant painters usually do." "(Painter..." "Axel Nilsson)" ""Oh, dear God!" "The farm house hasn't been painted in a hundred years" ""and the outhouses have never been painted!" ""I have work here to last until the fall!"" ""What kind of farm is this?" ""Do you think that they would like to have it painted?"" "He remembered so clearly that every time someone had said to his father:" ""You should have that big ugly house of yours painted, father Ingmar,"" "the old man had always answered that he would have it done the year Little Ingmar married." ""Had they now gotten ready with their answer up in heaven?" ""Is it a message from father that he wants me to get married this year?"" ""It won't be so hard to do it now that I'm so sure that father wants it!"" ""What's that for?"" ""I thought it could grow like this for a while."" ""No, I wasn't going to come in " ""I just want to have a couple of words with you, Ingmar."" ""Surely you will come in and have a drop of coffee!"" "Brita Eriksdotter \ S.S. Urania New York U.S.A. via Gothenburg" ""I wanted to talk about what we've arranged for Brita, when she is freed."" ""We've been thinking that it's best that she goes over to America." ""We've already bought a ticket for her."" ""What would father say about this?" ""If I was to put this to him now, what would he say?"" ""Don't think that you can make light of God's justice." ""If her father wants to reject her in order to ingratiate himself to you" ""and borrow money from you," ""then you should still walk in God's paths, Little Ingmar Ingmarsson!"" ""I'm sure old dad is watching over me in this matter." ""I'm sure he's sent Brita's father here to show me how wicked it is to want" ""to let her bear all the blame alone." "I think that he's seen" ""that in these last few days I haven't had much desire to go and get her."" ""Thank you, sir, for coming here today!"" "...there is nothing to be gained in your coming home first, it's better to avoid meeting." "There is a packed trunk at the merchant Löfberg's and also a ticket and money waiting for you." "I have spoken with Ingmar and he also agrees that you should travel to America." "Later, you can..." "And now the prison priest wanted her to write to Ingmar..." ""I consider her so blameless that if she would just" ""change her feelings towards me, I would marry her that same day!"" ""Reverend, do you promise me for sure to keep it" ""and not send it off until I am on board the steamer to America?"" "Ingmar Ingmarsson had come to town and walked slowly up to the big county jail above the city park." ""There are probably a few who've gone in there" ""who haven't had an easy time of it." ""I don't mean to exaggerate," ""but maybe a lot of people have gone in there" ""who have suffered less than I who am standing outside here."" ""Yes but, Big Ingmar has brought me here to get my bride out of jail." ""But I can't say that Little Ingmar is very excited about it." ""He would have liked for her to have come out through a port of honor," ""and the bride groom would have stood there waiting..."" "And she would've sat beside him, beautiful and dressed as a bride with a little smile underneath her crown." "And they would have traveled to the church with a great procession " "End of part VI." ""It's her now --"" ""Don't cry like that, Brita."" ""Imagine how I've longed for you to be here!"" ""What did you say Brita -- have you been longing?"" ""I wanted to ask your forgiveness."" ""Let's not stand here any longer."" ""I saw that your trunk was at merchant Löfberg's." ""It's too big to put on the back of the cart." ""We'll have to leave it here until we have some other errand in town."" ""But my father wrote me that you agreed that I should go to America --"" ""I thought that it couldn't hurt if you had a choice." ""It wasn't so certain that you would want to come with me."" ""If only I could know his thoughts!" "God, let me know if he wants me," ""if he is happy to have me -- or if he has only come out of charity!"" ""Are the flowers also just goodness and charity?" "Was he happy yesterday?" ""Was it just today he became sad, after he saw me come out of prison?"" "They traveled mile after mile in deep silence." "They slept overnight at an inn, but left in good time and were so far along the way that..." "They saw the church of their home parish " ""Dear God, it's Sunday!"" ""I would really like to go to church."" "He didn't think he had the courage to meet the sharp tongues." ""But it will have to be done sometime" he thought," ""it will be just as bad whenever it happens."" "She forgot all else in the thought that she wanted to go to church to thank God." "She wanted to dedicate the new life she would now live with a service in the old church " "What would come of this?" "What would come of this?" "She should have never come with him." "They left the church as soon as the priest had stepped down from the pulpit." "Both felt as if they had sat on the bench of shame in the church." "One who had committed such a crime could not live among other people." "Brilliantly red as it was, she hardly recognized Ingmar's Farm." "She remembered that it had always been said that the farm would be painted when Ingmar got married." "She understood that he had wanted to make everything genuinely nice, but that it then had gotten too difficult for him." ""The master is here!"" ""Now, all of you stay in here!" "No one needs to get up from the table!"" ""No, I won't get out!" "I should have never come back!" ""Let me go back to town!" "I'm not good enough for you!"" ""What did she say?"" ""She said she wasn't good enough for us."" ""And why is she crying?"" ""Because she is such a miserable sinner."" "No, he never would have stood there and repeated those words if he had loved her." "Now she knew what she needed to know." ""Why isn't she getting out?"" ""Because I don't want to bring Ingmar misfortune!"" ""Let her go, Little Ingmar!" ""You should know, by the way, that otherwise it will be me who goes." ""I won't sleep one night under the same roof with someone the likes of her!"" ""For God's sake, let's go!"" "SONS OF INGMAR Act VIII." "When they came out on the road they kept meeting people on their way from church." "Ingmar was bothered by it and drove into a small forest path." ""Here's a letter for you, Ingmar!"" ""Don't read it!"" ""It's not worth reading -- that letter, it's from me."" ""Then you can tell me yourself what's in it."" ""Oh, dear God, will I be spared nothing?"" ""Listen Ingmar." "It was the prison priest that got me to write it" ""and he promised to hold on to it" ""and send it to you when I was already on the steamer." ""Now he has sent it too soon!"" ""You don't have the right to read it yet!" ""Ingmar, let me get away before you read it!"" ""It isn't true what's written there!" "The priest talked me into writing." ""I don't like you, Ingmar!"" "...what you said in court three years ago." "After that I began to love you." "I became so enamored with you and I thought that you belonged to me and I to you." "If I only now dared..." ""I just can't figure it out!" "My head is spinning!"" ""Is it true what's in the letter, that you love me?"" ""Does it say in that letter that you love me?"" ""Yes."" ""So you're lying!" "You're lying!"" ""God knows I prayed everyday that I might see you before I went."" ""Where are you going?"" ""I'm going to America, of course --"" ""Like hell you are!"" "Now it was his turn to cry " "She was so happy, she didn't know what to do to keep from laughing out loud." ""Ingmar, Little Ingmar!"" ""You, who thinks that I am so ugly!"" ""When I looked at you that time in court," ""I thought that you were better looking than all the others."" ""You were wiser than all the others," ""and you were the only one it would be good to live together with."" ""Why didn't you write me about it earlier?"" ""Would I have dared write a love letter to you" ""after everything I had done to you?"" ""I could hit you!"" ""I was so close to letting you go!" ""No one can understand how furious I am with you!"" ""I'm thinking about how we ran out of the church" ""and were kicked off of Ingmar's Farm." ""Now, we'll have to live on the road like vagabonds."" ""It'll work out." "For now I don't care a bit about anything except you!"" ""You don't need to be worried." "There's someone who's helping us!"" ""It's father." "He'll make sure that it works out with mother!"" ""Finally, Mother Märta, you can be proud of Ingmar!" ""It seems as if he is part of the old line!" ""We'll now have to start calling him Big Ingmar!"" ""He has brought home Brita!" ""And believe me, he'll be honored for it for as long as he lives!"" ""I could hardly contain myself when I saw them sitting in church." ""That was a better sermon than I could give!" ""Ingmar is an example to us all, just like his father!"" ""No, he hasn't come home yet. -- Maybe they went first to Bergskog --"" ""Go and find Brita and Ingmar!" "Ask them to come back home right away!"" ""Is it better for you now that there are two of us to bear it?"" ""You're both just sitting here" ""while all the farm hands from Ingmar's Farm are out looking for you!"" ""And now Mother Märta is asking you to come home again, right away!"" "Ingmar didn't hear any more of what she was saying." "He was far away in thought." ""I am coming into the main room" ""where father is sitting with all the old Ingmarssons --"" ""Good day to you, Big Ingmar Ingmarsson!"" ""Good day Father, and thank you for the help!"" ""Well now you will be well married" ""and everything else will follow all by itself!"" ""I never would have made it so far, if you hadn't stood by me!"" ""That was no trick." "We Ingmars just have to walk in God's paths!"" "" " THE END " "Translated by Christopher Oscarson, Fall 2003" "The Sons of Ingmar, a film based on the introductory chapter of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem." "Told in pictures under the direction of VICTOR SJÖSTRÖM" "At the camera:" "J. JULIUS" "Film company:" "A.B. Svenska Biografteatern, Stockholm." "SONS OF INGMAR Act I." "There was a man, who was ploughing his field one summer morning." "He was a tall, stooping man with reddish hair and a protruding lower lip -- (Victor Sjöström)" ""How can it be that I sometimes worry and think it's difficult to be alive?" ""Is anything needed more than sunshine and beautiful weather" ""to feel as blissful as one of God's children in heaven?"" ""And such a farm I have!" "I am at least as rich as anyone in the parish," ""and I never have to fear being poor."" ""Nor is it really poverty that I fear." ""If I do what I am now thinking about doing, neither the priest nor the mayor" ""are going to shake hands with me outside the church on Sunday," ""and at least they've been doing that up to now."" ""But nor is there anyone who is asking me to make myself unhappy!"" ""Had father still been alive I could have asked him about this," ""just as I used to ask him for advice in all difficult matters."" ""If I only knew the way, I would go to him!"" ""I wonder what Big Ingmar would say, if I came wandering up to him --"" "He imagined his father sitting up there in heaven on a big farm with many fields and pastures and a big house and fine livestock, just liked he wanted to have down on earth." ""Is that you, Little Ingmar Ingmarsson!" "You haven't finished down there yet" ""-- what are you doing up here?"" ""I would like to meet Big Ingmar to ask his advice about an awkward situation."" "Big Ingmar." "(Tore Svennberg)" ""Welcome, Little Ingmar Ingmarsson!"" ""I would like to have a few words with you father," ""but there are so many strangers here."" ""Oh, they are just family, these men have all lived on Ingmar's Farm" ""and the oldest of them are from time immemorial."" ""Yes, but I would like to speak a couple of words with you alone."" "End of part I." "SONS OF INGMAR Act II." ""It is a nice farm you have here, father"" ""It's alright." "How are things at home on Ingmar's Farm?"" ""The farm is doing well, but I am not so good." "Often I am told that you, father," ""were as wise as the Lord himself, but no one is asking me for advice."" ""You should arrange to get married, Ingmar, and get a good wife."" ""But that is exactly what I can't do, father." ""There isn't a farmer in the parish so poor" ""that he would want to give me his daughter."" ""Tell me now Little Ingmar, how has all this happened?"" ""Well, you see father, four years ago, the same year you died --"" ""..." "I was down at Bergskog one evening."" ""Father, you remember, of course, Brita of Bergskog?" (Brita..." "Harriet Bosse)" ""Brita's parents are well-to-do folk and her father is a member of parliament."" "(Brita's father..." "Hjalmar Peters)" ""And her mother also received me well." (Brita's mother..." "Svea Peters)" ""There was a farmhand at Bergskog, who was called Sven " ""he was Brita's childhood friend --" (Sven..." "Wilh." "Högstedt)" ""I asked for Brita's hand at Bergskog"" ""It's best that you speak with Brita first. " ""I'll come back during the week and get her reply." ""You never know if she will have me."" ""You have our word!" ""And that said it makes no difference what the girl wants!"" ""I'll tell Sven to hitch up the horse for you."" ""Do you know what he wanted?" "He asked for your hand." ""You're to be the mistress of Ingmar's Farm!"" ""You'll never get me to be Ingmar's wife!"" ""Ingmar Ingmarsson has my word, and I won't go back on it!"" ""I think you should be happy" ""to get a husband as rich as Little Ingmar Ingmarsson."" ""Everything might have worked out well, but, you see the problem was" ""that she didn't want me." "It was likely the parents who forced her to say yes."" ""But at any rate our banns were published --"" ""-- and the wedding day was set." (The Priest..." "William Ivarsson)" ""No thank you!" "It's best that we leave right away!"" ""And Brita moved down to Ingmar's Farm before the wedding" ""in order to help mother."" ""I'll tell you, Mother is starting to get old and tired."" "(Mother Märta..." "Hildur Carlberg)" ""There's mother." "She would probably like to greet you."" ""It'll no doubt pass when she gets settled." ""I'm sure she's going to like being at Ingmar's Farm."" "End of part II." "SONS OF INGMAR Act III." ""Each day Brita became more quiet and strange."" ""And the cows got sick that year, and nothing would grow in the fields..."" ""-- and the potatoes failed completely."" ""And in one month the wedding was to be celebrated --"" ""I've always heard that it is good to be at the Ingmarssons."" ""Yes, they are good people."" ""They are the best people in the parish." "They are fair-minded people."" ""Yes, but is it considered fair to force oneself on one's betrothed?"" ""You know that the Ingmarssons had a bad harvest." ""I don't think that they are going to have a wedding this year."" ""Yes, and I will have to drown myself --"" ""Father always said that the year I got married the house would be painted." ""And I just don't have the means for it this year."" ""Mother, don't you think that it'd be best to put the marriage back a year?" ""Otherwise we'll have to borrow money from the bank." ""And the ceremony isn't so important after banns are published."" ""First and foremost, you have to make sure you can afford it."" ""I had a suspicion Brita was brooding about me postponing the wedding," ""but I was afraid to ask her about it."" ""So I will have to celebrate a baptism before a wedding!"" ""It can just as well burn up for him, all of Ingmar's Farm!"" ""Mother, have you seen how pale Brita has become?" ""And have you noticed the wild look in her eyes?"" ""Brita's going to have a baby." "She'll be herself again when it's over."" "SONS OF INGMAR Act IV." ""I'm going to do something to him." ""Otherwise, I'll never have peace in my soul!"" ""Dear heart, you weren't thinking of throwing yourself off, were you?"" ""It would be better if I died, because I am going to do something wicked!"" ""I became wicked when I moved down to Ingmar's Farm." ""They just plot how they can torture and humiliate me" ""and I just plot how I'm going to torture them back!" ""All I can think about is how I can hurt them!"" ""Help me, Kajsa!" "I am so troubled by my evil thoughts!"" ""If you promise not to hurt anyone, I will keep quiet about this."" ""That's how the whole winter went" ""and I often thought that if Brita were to continue so unhappy" ""then I would have rather stayed away from her and sent her back to Bergskog." ""But now it was too late to do that." "And this continued until May."" ""Where is Brita?"" ""Go upstairs and tell Brita to come down."" ""We looked for her all night --"" ""If you won't have your child honorably, then you won't have a child at all!"" ""-- and finally one of the maids found her."" ""In God's name, she's not dead is she?"" ""No -- not her -- but the child --"" ""She did it to take revenge on me because I had forced myself on her --"" ""Were you looking forward to the child, Little Ingmar?"" ""Yes..."" "End of part IV."