Ingeborg Holm

Directed by Victor Sjöström

Produced by Svenska Biografteatern

A devastating silent-era melodrama about maternal loss and social devastation, where a widow's desperate struggle to reclaim her separated children becomes a meditation on poverty, grief, and the cruelty of circumstance.

After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.