The Child
1938 · 100 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 70 VOTES · DIR. Rasmus Breistein
Overview
The classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play. Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja, and Harald Heide Steen as her unfaithful boyfriend Julius.Milja and Julius are a happy couple working at the factory, and everything is good until Petrina shows up at the arena. Julius is bewitched by the girl, who gets him to drink and steal.Milja is soon left alone with the shame - and a bastard child. The child is placed with Hønse-Lovisa while Milja is at the factory, but a doctor casts his eyes on Milja`s young. He's looking for children to adopt to rich westside people. In her desperation, Milja gives away the dearest thing she owns, for the kid to have better conditions than she manages to give him.It is Hønse-Lovisa that convinces her that the material benefits can never compensate for real love and care.
Dialogue Timeline — 860 lines
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00:04:12 You have to get up now, Anders. It's already five.
00:09:51 - But I am. - Let's go up, then.
00:13:34 I'll go wind up the control bell. I won't be long.
00:16:31 Don't stand there gawping! Answer!
00:19:39 But it did matter that you made me steal.
00:22:55 Oh, is it you? And you, Milja. What do you have to talk about?
00:25:56 I'll be sure to tell Krestina.
00:30:07 And you didn't get any. It's the same old story.
00:34:47 It stays here.
00:38:09 Engebret must have his meal in peace.
00:41:33 I don't want any coffee. - No, no.
00:45:54 That's what it says, and how it is. - Stop it now, Krestina.
00:50:21 You're as wise as the greylag goose in spring.
00:53:30 Or are you going to be a sailor and turn all the girls' heads?
00:56:47 What about your parents? - My dad is dead.
01:00:41 He's asking you something. - What is he asking me?
01:06:40 I'll hurry up.
01:10:39 We need some air tonight. The girls are really hanging on.
01:14:24 Aren't you having fun here, Milja?
01:18:40 You're not allowed to beat her. - Don't worry. She's not worth it.
01:23:05 You go dance now. Don't worry about the kid any more.
01:28:07 I'm feeling bad enough as it is, you don't have to add to the burden.
01:33:15 We have to prove that we are real men. Hold on.
01:38:00 Exactly. That's what I thought.