Growth of the Soil
6.5
In rural Norway in the early 20th century, the homesteader Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with his wife Inger and their two sons. Life is both harsh and fulfilling.
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Cast
18 people
Amund Rydland
Isak
Also in
Farende folk
Himmeluret
Karen Poulsen
Inger
Also in
Ditte, Child of Man
Once Upon a Time
George Schnéevoigt
Knut Hamsun
Ragna Wettergreen
Oline
Also in
Madame de Thèbes
The Story of a Mother
Leif Halvorsen
Gunnar Sommerfeldt
Geissler, lensmannen
Also in
Sons of the Soil
In Defense of the Nation
Inge Sommerfeldt
Barbro
Also in
Sons of the Soil
Almar Bjoernefjell
Elesius, en ung bonde
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Sigurd Berg Bruland
Brede Olsen, en bondegutt
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Siljusson av Terna
Os-Anders
Sivert Eliassen
Sivert
Gunnar Sommerfeldt Director · Knut Hamsun Writer Leif Halvorsen Composer
Budget $250M · United States release September 28, 1929 · Produced in Norway
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Budget
$250,000,000
Production
Norrøna Film
Production
Christiana Film
Production
Norway
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Languages
Original title
Markens grøde
Original language
Norwegian
Release dates
Norway · December 2, 1921
Theatrical
United States · September 28, 1929
Denmark
April 8, 1922
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