Thomas Graal's Best Child (1918)

Marriage a la mode

Directed by Mauritz Stiller1h 29mComedy,Romance

Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marriage begins right at the wedding (which contains some hilarious incidents) when Frau Bessie announces the first Graal child must be a girl, creating a terrible conflict with her husband who is hoping for a boy. It takes a scandal to finally end the war between man and wife.

Year

1918

Country

Language

Swedish

Release date

21 October 1918

TMDB

5.4 (7)

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