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DIGITALLY RESTORED

THE BIGGEST SWEDISH FILM SUCCESS OF THE 1940S. 2 MILLION CINEMA VISITORS ! IN

In 19th century Hälsingland, the wealthy farmer Germund promises his daughter Marit to the son of a neighboring farm. But fate has other plans and Marit falls in love with the socially outcast violinist Jon, who is considered by the village to be in league with the devil. Their forbidden love turns everything on its head in the superstitious farming community.

The national romantic director Gustaf Edgren broke all records with Driver dagg faller regn. The film became the biggest box office success of the entire 1940s with two million cinemagoers, which corresponds to almost a third of Sweden's population at the time! The film couple Mai Zetterling and Alf Kjellin, who had previously achieved success in Hets 1944, excelled in the leading roles .

" A truly dramatic and unusually beautiful film " SvD

" Extraordinarily photographed, vividly staged and well acted " Expressen

" The beautiful Hälsinge landscape gives the film a magnificent setting " DN