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The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Korkarlen, literally "The Wagoner") is a 1921 Swedish film generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year's Day 1921, it was directed by and starred Victor Sjostrom, alongside Hilda Borgstrom, Tore Svennberg and Astrid Holm. It is based on the novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Korkarlen; 1912), by Nobel prize-winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlof.
The film is notable for its special effects, its advanced (for the time) narrative structure with flashbacks within flashbacks, and for having been a major influence on Ingmar Bergman.It is also known as The Phantom Chariot, Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! and The Stroke of Midnight.
The film was a powerful influence on the later Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman who also utilised the figure of Death in The Seventh Seal, where the referring to him as a "strict master" is a reference to The Phantom Carriage. Bergman also cast Sjostrom in the leading role for Wild Strawberries, which also features references to the film. Bergman has said that he first saw it at 15 and watched it at least once every year. The television play The Image Makers (2000), directed by Bergman, is a historical drama depicting the making of The Phantom Carriage.
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