Although based on a play , "Värmlannigarma "(the people of Värmland) bears a distant resemblance to Gustav Edgrun 's "driver dagg faller regen"( 1947°(after the dew, the rain) ,a movie loosely based on a Birgit Sonderholm's novel : the feud between the families ( in "people von Värmland" ,it remains vague, in the 1947 work ,it's much more detailed) ; if one reverses the roles (the girl becomes a poor servant,the boy ,the son of a wealthy bourgeois) , it amounts to the same ;one will note many similarities : the girl saying "no" in front of the whole congregation,hints at the sprite /fairy of the river, the waterfall where the girl almost gets drowned .......
But the 1957 effort is a musical , the rustic and aristocratic balls as well as the dancing numbers are dazzling ; on the other hand the songs are (except for the first one ) sometimes dull .The colors are splendid ,glittering , recalling the atmosphere of Douglas Sirk's melodramas (he was Nordic ,Danish to be precise ,being born Detlef Sierck ) of the fifties .The lovers are a beautiful couple , but Kerstin Meyer ,who plays Brita , the would be rival,overplays and her character verges on caricature ;so does her father. And the last ten minutes are full of filler.
See it for the nice cinematography ,a feast for the eye in this restored version.
But the 1957 effort is a musical , the rustic and aristocratic balls as well as the dancing numbers are dazzling ; on the other hand the songs are (except for the first one ) sometimes dull .The colors are splendid ,glittering , recalling the atmosphere of Douglas Sirk's melodramas (he was Nordic ,Danish to be precise ,being born Detlef Sierck ) of the fifties .The lovers are a beautiful couple , but Kerstin Meyer ,who plays Brita , the would be rival,overplays and her character verges on caricature ;so does her father. And the last ten minutes are full of filler.
See it for the nice cinematography ,a feast for the eye in this restored version.
