Girl from Stormy Croft (1917)

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Country: Sweden
Genres: Drama
Release: 1919-03-04
Director: Victor Sjöström
Writers: Ester Julin , Selma Lagerlöf , Victor Sjöström
Language: None
Stars: Greta Almroth , Nils Aréhn , Josua Bengtson , Georg Blomstedt , Thekla Borgh , Gösta Cederlund , Lars Hanson , William Larsson , Karin Molander , Edla Rothgardt
Runtime: 87 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Lass from the Stormy Croft , La Fille de la Tourbière (France, French Republic) , Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (Germany) , Amor triunfante (Spain) , Tösen från Stormyrtorpet (Sweden) , The Girl from the Marsh Croft , Dziewczyna z bagniska (Poland) , The Girl from Stormycroft , Girl from Stormy Croft (United States of America) , Husmandstøsen (Denmark) , Tösen från Stormyrtorpet , A Menina Isaura (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , Девушка с Болотного хутора (Russian Federation) , A Garota do Pântano (Brazil) , The Woman He Chose (United Kingdom)
Plot: Helga is a young single lady who has a baby by a much older married man. After the older man tells Helga's father that he refuses to pay child support because he isn't the child's father, her father insists that Helga take him to court. On court day, just as the older married man is about to swear on the Bible that he is not the father of Helga's child, Helga suddenly tells the court that she's dropping the case because although the man did father her child, she doesn't want him to commit perjury, which is not only a serious crime but a mortal sin as well.
IMDB:tt0008710