House Slaves (Swedish: Hemslavinnor) is a 1923 Swedish silent comedy film directed by Ragnar Widestedt and starring Dagmar Ebbesen, Agda Helin and Karin Swanström. It was based on a 1920 Danish play which first appeared in Sweden in 1921. It was shot at studios in Kungsholmen in Stockholm with location shooting at Ränneslätt.
The plot revolves around Grethe young woman who heads to Stockholm to find work as a domestic servant. Ebbesen reprised the role of Kristina in the 1933 remake House Slaves as well as the 1942 film We House Slaves as well as over five hundred times on stage.
Cast
Dagmar Ebbesen as Kristina Mikkelsen
Agda Helin as Grethe
Elvin Ottoson as Palle Rasmussen
Karin Swanström as Mathilde Rasmussen
Erik Hoffman as Josef
Olav Riégo as Sophus Sörensen
Lia Norée as Anna Sörensen
Fritz Strandberg as Tobias Klementsen
Josua Bengtson as Carpenter
Tyra Dörum as Carpenter's Wife
Elsa Ebbesen as Job seeking girl
Hartwig Fock as Vacuum cleaner salesman
Karl Hellgren as Einar - Grethe's fiancé
Torsten Lennartsson as Customer at employment office
Emma Meissner as Fru Stjernholm
August Tollquist as Anselm - Kristiana's brother
References
Bibliography
Freiburg, Jeanne Ellen. Regulatory Bodies: Gendered Visions of the State in German and Swedish Cinema. University of Minnesota, 1994. Qvist, Per Olov & Von Bagh, Peter . Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.