The Saga of Gösta Berling

A romantic melodrama of fallen grace and forbidden love, told with the visual elegance and emotional directness characteristic of silent cinema.

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.