The National Library of Norway celebrates the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by “The Growth of the Soil”

The film was made in 1921 by the Danish director Gunnar Sommerfeldt and was adapted from the eponymous novel published in 1919 by the Norwegian Nobel-prize winner Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). The novel has been translated into some 25 languages. An eBook version of the English translation can be downloaded here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10984