A 1926 Swedish wife discovers feminism and her marriage might not survive the homework.
Paul Rosenkrans is a Captain of the Swedish Navy and has been married to his Signe for six years. They are still as in love as if they were newly engaged. But when Paul's leave is over for this time, Signe meets an old good friend, the plucky suffragette Annie Behrman, chairman of "Women's Political Freedom Party". Annie has written a book about the woman's slavery in marriage and begins to process Signe with her ideas that soon makes Signe see her marriage in a whole new light.
Acting
Tora Teje's face says everything the intertitles don't
Direction
Molander captures intimate rebellion in tight Swedish rooms
Costume
Annie's severe suits vs. Signe's soft domesticity
Director
Olof Molander
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released four years after Swedish women gained full suffrage, Giftas captures the awkward gap between legal freedom and domestic reality that plagued early feminist waves.
Tora Teje was Sweden's biggest silent star; this was her comeback after a Hollywood attempt failed because studios found her 'too intense'—classic.
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