Mot nya tider (Toward New Times) is a Swedish drama film from 1939 directed by Sigurd Wallén. It portrays the socio-political developments from 1885 until the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905. The film was shot from February to May 1939 at Sandrew Studios () 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
- ÃÂ
ke 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 StÃÂ¥hle 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
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