Mot nya tider

{{short description|1939 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Mot nya tider | image = | caption = | director = Sigurd Wallén | producer = | writer = Gösta Rodin John Sandén | based_on = | starring = Victor Sjöström Sigurd Wallén Bengt Djurberg Solveig Hedengran | music = | cinematography = Hilmer Ekdahl Karl-Erik Alberts | editing = | distributor = Svensk Talfilm | released = {{Film date|1939|11|6}} | runtime = 97 minutes | country = Sweden | language = Swedish | budget = }}

'''''Mot nya tider''''' (Toward New Times)<ref name="Qvist">{{cite book |last1=Qvist |first1=Per Olov |last2=von Bagh |first2=Peter |title=Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland |date=2000 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, CT |isbn=0-313-30377-0 |page=151}}</ref> is a Swedish drama film from 1939 directed by Sigurd Wallén.<ref name="Qvist"/><ref name="Nygard">{{cite news |last1=Nygård |first1=Frank |last2=Budalen |first2=Andreas |title=Ber om hjelp til å løse nitratfilm-mysteriet |url=https://www.nrk.no/nordland/haper-a-lose-nitratfilm-mysteriet-1.10952313 |accessdate=October 15, 2020 |work=NRK |date=March 17, 2013}}</ref> It portrays the socio-political developments from 1885 until the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905.<ref name="Nygard" /> The film was shot from February to May 1939 at Sandrew Studios ({{langx|sv|Sandrewateljéerna}}) in Stockholm and in Karlstad, Oslo, and Trondheim.

==Cast== * Victor Sjöström as Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician * Sigurd Wallén as Kalle Lundgren, a master painter * Bengt Djurberg as Johan Dahlberg, an engineer * Solveig Hedengran as Elin Ström * Gun-Mari Kjellström as Eva, Johan and Elin's daughter as an infant * Ulla Hodell as Eva as a young girl * Marianne Aminoff as Eva as an adult * Karl Holter as Henrik Thygesen, a Norwegian * Georg Løkkeberg as Christian Thygesen, Henrik's brother, a Norwegian lieutenant / Helge Thygesen as an adult * Åke Johansson as Helge Thygesen, Christian's son as a child * Ingela Lundstedt as Sigrid Bergström, Christian Thygesen's fiancé, Helge's mother * Thor Modéen as Lindqvist * Ingolf Schanche as Christian Michelsen, Norwegian prime minister * David Knudsen as Jørgen Løvland, Norwegian minister of foreign affairs * Leif Amble-Næss as Harald Bothner, Norwegian minister * Sigval Kvam as Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian minister * Olof Sandborg as King Oscar II * Karl-Magnus Thulstrup as Crown Prince Gustav * Sven Bergvall as Christian Lundeberg, Swedish prime minister * Ragnar Widestedt as Fredrik Wachtmeister, Swedish foreign minister * Rune Carlsten as Karl Staaff, Swedish politician * Arne Lindblad as August Palm, Swedish politician * Willy Peters as Per Albin Hansson, Swedish politician * Carl Barcklind as Semmy Rubenson, Stockholm chief of police * Gösta Cederlund as Governor Curry Treffenberg * Stina Ståhle as Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano * Georg Fernquist as Heinrich Robert Berns, a pastry chef * Hjalmar Meissner as August Meissner * Tord Bernheim as Hilding Nihlén, a dandy at Berns Salonger * Carin Swensson as Hulda Malmström, a Swedish actress * Carl Apolloff as Viscount António da Cunha Soto Maior, a Portuguese envoy

==References== {{reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0031671}} * ''[http://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=film&itemid=3893 Mot nya tider]'' at The Swedish Film Database

Category:1939 films Category:Swedish black-and-white films Category:Swedish drama films Category:Films directed by Sigurd Wallén Category:1939 Swedish-language films Category:1939 Swedish films Category:1939 drama films Category:Hjalmar Branting Category:Swedish-language drama films