The Girl from the Marsh Croft

A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and AB Svenska Biografteatern later AB Svensk Filmindustri to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film but after seeing Sjöströms Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance