There's a Fire Burning

There's a Fire Burning
Cinema showing the film in 1943.
Directed by	Gustaf Molander
Written by	Karl Ragnar Gierow Gösta Stevens Gustaf Molander
Starring	Inga Tidblad Lars Hanson Victor Sjöström
Cinematography	Åke Dahlqvist
Edited by	Oscar Rosander
Music by	Lars-Erik Larsson
Production company	Svensk Filmindustri
Distributed by	Svensk Filmindustri
Release date	23 August 1943 (1943-08-23)
Running time	107 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

There's a Fire Burning (Swedish: Det brinner en eld) is a 1943 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and starring Inga Tidblad, Lars Hanson and Victor Sjöström.^[1] It was made at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. Location shooting took place in Jämtland County. It was set in a thinly-disguised version of German-occupied Norway. This was part of a wider wartime strategy of setting films in unnamed countries adopted by the film industry in neutral Sweden.^[2] Molander directed a further film on a similar topic The Invisible Wall the following year.

A diplomat from a foreign country is in a relationship with the leading actress of the national theatre and is well liked by other members of the company. However, this all changes when his country invades and occupies their nation.

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• Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
• Wright, Rochelle. The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film. SIU Press, 1998.

• There's a Fire Burning at IMDb

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