Home from Babylon (Swedish: Hem från Babylon) is a 1941 Swedish drama film directed by Alf Sjöberg and starring Gerd Hagman, Arnold Sjöstrand and Georg Rydeberg.[1][2][3] It was based on a 1923 novel of the same title by Sigfrid Siwertz.[4] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm and on location around the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bertil Duroj.

Home from Babylon
Directed byAlf Sjöberg
Written bySigfrid Siwertz
Alf Sjöberg
Based onHome from Babylon by Sigfrid Siwertz
StarringGerd Hagman
Arnold Sjöstrand
Georg Rydeberg
CinematographyKarl-Erik Alberts
Edited byTage Holmberg
Music byMiff Görling
Arthur Österwall
Seymour Österwall
Production
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Wivefilm
Distributed byWivefilm
Release date
  • 23 December 1941 (1941-12-23)
Running time
106 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

Synopsis

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An engineer and a businessman are trying to escape the civil war in Manchuria. They suffer much, including contracting typhoid and the businessman dies. The engineer changes identity with the businessman. Although based on Siwertz's novel, the plot of the novel has been extended in time to the pre-war years of World War II.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ "Hem från Babylon". Swedish Film Database. Archived from the original on 19 September 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  2. ^ Gustafsson p.37
  3. ^ Qvist & Von Bagh p.131
  4. ^ Goble p. 431
  5. ^ Sjöberg, Alf (23 December 1941), Hem från Babylon (Drama), Gerd Hagman, Arnold Sjöstrand, Georg Rydeberg, Wivefilm, retrieved 6 April 2025

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Gustafsson, Fredrik. The Man from the Third Row: Hasse Ekman, Swedish Cinema and the Long Shadow of Ingmar Bergman. Berghahn Books, 2016.
  • Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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