Per Lindberg – Norrtullsligan AKA The Norrtull Gang (1923)

Pegg, Eva, Baby and Emmy — four self-supporting female office workers — share a flat and try to make their way in the rapidly modernizing but still very patriarchal Stockholm of the early 1900s.

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The Norrtull Gang belongs among the most courageous and enjoyable films of the European decade. Films prior to 1923 had presented individual female characters of flesh and blood, but The Norrtull Gang established a precedent in dealing with a cast dominated by four lively women. From the opening sequence, the intertitles are unusual in reflecting a person’s thoughts and memories. The screenplay by Hjalmar Bergman transcends the familiar image of women as decorative objects. The four who make up the “gang” take city life in their stride. One loses her job after campaigning for strike action at the office. Another resigns after the boss has flirted with her once too often. The film resembles a witty book of memoirs, almost a diary. Lindberg’s direction escapes the conventions of the time so that his women still look quite modern with their non-nonsense coiffures, for example, and the minutiae of everyday life come across vividly. Seventeen years later he would again demonstrate his gift for directing actresses, in The June Night.

Peter Cowie (Scandinavian Cinema, 1990)

	
Norrtullsligan (Per Lindberg, 1923).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 44 min
Size: 	500 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	468x340 
Aspect ratio:  	1.376
Frame rate: 	17.054 fps
Bit rate: 	664 kb/s
BPP: 	0.245

https://nitro.download/view/F9D010A9D028113/Norrtullsligan_(Per_Lindberg,_1923).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/405C8B8CBE6DF27/Norrtullsligan_(Per_Lindberg,_1923)_v2.srt

Language(s):Silent
Subtitles:Swedish intertitles, English