The Poor Nobodys will perform a live original score
accompanying the screening of the silent Swedish film A Man There Was. Based on Henrik
Ibsen’s epic poem and directed by Victor Sjöström, A Man There Was (Terje Vigen) was
released in 1917 when many Scandinavian immigrants were arriving in Minnesota. The film tells
the story of a Norwegian sailor who in 1814 takes on a British blockade to find food for his
family. Considered to be one of the crowning achievements in Swedish silent film, A Man There
Was cemented Sjöström’s reputation as a director (and actor) of the highest caliber