The Phantom Carriage
The Phantom Carriage

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It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight...... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Phantom Carriage:

Victor Sjöström
Hilda Borgström
Tore Svennberg
Astrid Holm
Concordia Selander
Lisa Lundholm

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It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight...

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David Keyes' Cinema 2000 - 10/10 by David KeyesThe Phantom Carriage is not so much a whole film as it is a filmed collection of ideas, but the manner and enthusiasm to which they are realized is arresting, and hypnotic.
CinePassion - 9/10 by Fernando F. CroceThe double-exposure photography used throughout is a stupefying achievement of its own, an incantation of overlapping worlds and a visualization of the characters' growing awareness of the connection between body and soul.
The New York Review of Books - 8/10 by Geoffrey O'BrienWhatever the suggestiveness of the fable, the film works on us with the bare palpability of its elements-even of its visual tricks.
Q Network Film Desk - 8/10 by James KendrickDespite all the creepiness on display, the film ultimately affirms not the emptiness of death, but rather the importance of life.
User Review - 10/10 by Janina KI am so bad with watching silent films but this one just absorbs you to it's horror-romantic world.
User Review - 10/10 by David LThanks to emotional intensity, authentic story and absolutely astonishing special effects, The Phantom Carriage manages to feel otherworldly, creepy and quite atmospheric. The plot structure with flashbacks is also highly amusing and advanced. It is incredinly engaging for a silent movie, immensely original, beautifully filmed, very influential, warm, smart, spooky and quite possibly the best film of the decade and the finest Swedish film ever.
User Review - 10/10 by Terry D"Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage)" is a masterpiece work of the silent era, or really any era, by Swedish film auteur Victor Sjöström. Based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning (and fellow Swedish) author Selma Lagerlöf, the plot concerns an old Breton legend (it postulates that the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve is doomed to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year) and follows an alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well, David Holm (Sjöström himself) and the pure-of-heart Salvation Army sister, Edit, who believes in his redemption. The narrative structure, mise-en-scène, cinematography, innovative special effects, and acting are all shining examples of cinema par excellence. Interestingly enough, the double/multiple exposure technique employed by Sjöström to effectively present the eponymous carriage and those persons who are now on the 'other side' of the mortal curtain came to be seen by some latter-day critics as a conventional apparatus of the time that was overused by the director, but in defense of Sjöström, it is in no way used as a gimmick - the effects beautifully fit the story and the scenes and subjects actually look exactly like they're described in the novel. One of the trailblazers of his generation and an inspiration to countless filmmakers in this wake, Sjöström ended up being a literal father figure to fellow countryman Ingmar Bergman, who ended up casting him in two of his own films late in the former's life, most notably "Wild Strawberries", a Bergman masterpiece and Sjöström's final film appearance. Thematically, there are clear and nifty parallels between "The Phantom Carriage" and Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (as there will later be in "Wild Strawberries" along with nods to "The Phantom Carriage") centered around Holm being forced by his ghostly predecessor to revisit 3 key episodes of his life that have highly impacted and shaped his present, although I daresay in darker style here. Many scenes leave their mark. Two chilling ones in particular registered highly with me - 1.) After waking in the Salvation Army shelter and finding out that Sister Edit meticulously repaired his battered coat overnight Holm quite shockingly and savagely rips all of her alterations asunder, and 2.) In a fit of rage after his wife has locked him in the kitchen Holm grabs an axe and proceeds to hack through the door, eventually peering through his crudely-fashioned hole in ominous fashion before unlocking the door and escaping, in the meantime his wife has fainted from terror (this scene is recreated in almost mirror fashion by Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson in "The Shining"). Overall, 95 years after it was made, "The Phantom Carriage" remains an impressive achievement in the history of film and an emotionally affecting one that leaves a deep and indelible impression.
User Review - 10/10 by Letícia MOne of the most amazing cinematic experiences i've had in my entire life. A flawless movie. No wonder it offered inspiration for filmmaker master Ingmar Bergman.
User Review - 10/10 by Charles P3: This is definitely the first Swedish film from 1920 that I've seen on Blu-Ray. It is in very good shape. It's really pretty impressive, especially the ghostly scenes with the carriage of death. The story isn't all that spectacular though. It's a fairly plotting and sentimental tale of life gone wrong essentially. An interesting piece of film history, but not terribly entertaining, at least in my current state of mind. It gets three stars simply because it is such a beautiful, sophisticated, and moving Swedish film that was made in 1920. Impressive, but it can't hold a candle to the likes of Griffith. However, this films are chock full of action whereas this is about redemption and introspection.
User Review - 10/10 by Eric HIn the New Year's Eve, the tuberculous sister of the Salvation Army Edit (Astrid Holm) asks her mother and her colleague Maria (Lisa Lundholm) to call David Holm (Victor Sjöström) to visit her in her deathbed. Meanwhile, the alcoholic David is telling to two other drunkards in the cemetery the legend of the Phantom Coach and his coachman: in accordance with the legend, the last sinner to die in the turn of the New Year becomes the soul collector, gathering souls in his coach. When David denies to visit Edit, his friends have an argument with him, they fight and David dies. When the coachman arrives, he recognizes his friend Georges (Tore Svennberg), who died in the end of the last year. George revisits parts of David's obnoxious life and in flashbacks, he shows how mean and selfish David was. "Körkarlen" is an impressive and stylish silent movie, with magnificent special effects (for a 1921 movie). The characters are very well developed; however, the story is dated and there is a weird and unexplained situation, when Sister Edit tells that she loves David Holm. Why should a enlightened woman love such a despicable man that wasted his life corrupting other people? Despite being religiously dated in the present days, it gives a beautiful message of faith and redemption in the end.

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