
An important man's death brings forth a secret, revealing a daughter from another woman, previously unknown to his wife - and bringing about the meeting of the two sisters..

Victor Sjöström, Marika Stiernstedt
Sweden

The first time I saw The Governor’s Daughters I thought the projector itself was exhaling—each frame a frozen breath, a white gust of Scandinavian guilt billowing across my living-room wall. Victor Sjöström made this film in 1920, two years before he terrified the world with The Phantom Carriage, yet the carriage alre...


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" The first time I saw The Governor’s Daughters I thought the projector itself was exhaling—each frame a frozen breath, a white gust of Scandinavian guilt billowing across my living-room wall. Victor Sjöström made this film in 1920, two years before he terrified the world with The Phantom Carriage, yet the carriage already haunts the periphery here: a bier on runners, coasting through drifts toward a manor whose door is opened by a butler who knows more biology than the late patriarch ever confes..."


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