Rail Workers

{{short description|1947 film}} {{Infobox film | name =Rail Workers | image =File:Rail Workers.jpg | caption = | director = Arne Mattsson | producer = Harald Molander | based_on = ''Nordanvind'' by Olle Länsberg | writer = Rune Lindström <br> Gardar Sahlberg <br> Arne Mattsson | starring =Victor Sjöström <br> John Elfström <br> Gunnel Broström | music = Sven Sköld | cinematography = Martin Bodin | editing = Oscar Rosander | studio = Svensk Filmindustri | distributor =Svensk Filmindustri | released = {{Film date|1947|12|26|df=yes}} | runtime = 108 minutes | country = Sweden | language = Swedish | budget = | gross = }} '''''Rail Workers''''' (Swedish: '''''Rallare''''') is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Victor Sjöström, John Elfström and Gunnel Broström.<ref>Qvist & Von Bagh p.134</ref><ref>McIlroy p.71</ref> It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall. It is based on the 1946 novel ''Nordanvind'' by Olle Länsberg.

==Synopsis== In 1902 a team of navvies work on the construction of a new railway line from Luleå on the Gulf of Bothnia in Northern Sweden to Narvik on the Norwegian Sea, then under Swedish sovereignty. Valfrid, from Southern Sweden, is ostracised by the other workers and their informal leader Stora Ballong.

==Cast== * Victor Sjöström as Stora Ballong * John Elfström as Valfrid Andersson * Gunnel Broström as Viktoria * Åke Grönberg as Calle-Ville * Inga Landgré as Hildur * Sven Magnusson as Dynamiten * Ingrid Borthen as Svarta Björn * Bengt Eklund as Amos Forslund * Svea Holst as Stina * Axel Högel as Baptist-Anders * Birger Åsander as Filip Bred * Henake Schubak as Sikkavaara Frans * Gösta Holmström as Bråk-Olle * Sven Bergvall as Blom * Kolbjörn Knudsen as Holmberg * Einar Söderbäck as Söder * Carl Deurell as King Oscar II * Arthur Fischer as Langar-Oskar * Martin Ljung as The King's adjutant * Artur Rolén as Artilleri-Emil * Keve Hjelm as Natan * Ivar Wahlgren as Railroad watchman * Tor Borong as Railroad worker

== References == <references/>

== Bibliography == * McIlroy, Brian. ''World Cinema: Sweden''. Flicks Books, 1986. * Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. ''Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland''. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0039749}}

Category:1947 films Category:1947 drama films Category:1947 Swedish-language films Category:Films directed by Arne Mattsson Category:Films set in the 1900s Category:Swedish historical drama films Category:1940s historical drama films Category:Films based on Swedish novels Category:1947 Swedish films Category:Swedish-language historical drama films