Ett farligt frieri [SEP] based on
A Dangerous Wooing
Ett farligt frieri, or A dangerous proposal, aka A dangerous wooing is the first silent film directed by Swedish director Rune Carlsten in 1919.
The film has been the subject of a restoration in 2010 with intertitles in Swedish and English by the Swedish Film Institute.
Synopsis.
In a small village in the Swedish mountains, all the boys are in love with Aslaugh, the daughter of rich farmer Knut Husaby. Thormund, the wealthiest farmer in the village proposes to marry his son Ola to
Bells" at midnight in the Skansen open air museum, a Swedish New Year's Eve national tradition.
He married Ragni Frisell (1896-1984) on 10 June 1926 in Stockholm. The actress Eva Henning is his step daughter, Ragni Frisell's child by an earlier marriage.
Henning is buried in the North Cemetery in Stockholm.
Selected filmography.
- 1919: "Ett farligt frieri"
- 1926: "Only a Dancing Girl"
- 1929: "A Cottage on Dartmoor"