A Man There Was
1917 · 56 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 2,442 VOTES · DIR. Victor Sjöström
Overview
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Dialogue Timeline — 149 lines
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00:00:26 The film's original intertitles were inserted into the new negative, -
00:01:57 - most when the storm was nigh, -
00:03:56 - he met with their flying skein.
00:05:40 Indoors there were two bestowed;
00:07:40 - and lay in his folding arm.
00:10:32 The poor people starved, the wealthy went short
00:14:59 The smallest dory there was to hand he chose for his Skagen trip.
00:17:49 - its look-out's eagle-eyed gleam.
00:22:17 The fourth morning, at dawn, by sun's first rays, -
00:25:55 - and waits with our baby for bread!''
00:30:02 He languished in prison for many a day, -
00:32:32 Back at the jetty he came ashore a pilot by King's decree;
00:35:20 - in the parish burial-ground.''
00:40:27 And then people sensed he was troubled yet, -
00:44:23 Like a hero he seized on the wheel;
00:45:40 - his lordship's queen of the sea.
00:47:54 - and stove in the cutter's shell!
00:50:10 ''A sunken dory supplies our relief, three barleygrain casks our dock.''
00:51:03 - and over my salt tears gloat.''
00:52:46 - for I had to - I had to repay!''
00:55:55 - from this little mite by me.''
00:58:59 Original English translation prepared by Christopher Oscarson for the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed149
Dialogue density2.7 lines / min
First line00:00:26
Final line00:58:59
Production Record
DirectorVictor Sjöström
LanguageSwedish
IMDb votes2,442