Mot nya tider (Toward New Times) is a Swedish drama film from 1939 directed by Sigurd Wallén. It portrays the socio-political developments from 1885 until the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905. The film was shot from February to May 1939 at Sandrew Studios (Swedish: Sandrewateljéerna) in Stockholm and in Karlstad, Oslo, and Trondheim.
Cast
Victor Sjöström as Hjalmar Branting, Swedish politician
Sigurd Wallén as Kalle Lundgren, a master painter
Bengt Djurberg as Johan Dahlberg, an engineer
Solveig Hedengran as Elin Ström
Gun-Mari Kjellström as Eva, Johan and Elin's daughter as an infant
Ulla Hodell as Eva as a young girl
Marianne Aminoff as Eva as an adult
Karl Holter as Henrik Thygesen, a Norwegian
Georg Løkkeberg as Christian Thygesen, Henrik's brother, a Norwegian lieutenant / Helge Thygesen as an adult
Åke Johansson as Helge Thygesen, Christian's son as a child
Ingela Lundstedt as Sigrid Bergström, Christian Thygesen's fiancé, Helge's mother
Thor Modéen as Lindqvist
Ingolf Schanche as Christian Michelsen, Norwegian prime minister
David Knudsen as Jørgen Løvland, Norwegian minister of foreign affairs
Leif Amble-Næss as Harald Bothner, Norwegian minister
Sigval Kvam as Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian minister
Olof Sandborg as King Oscar II
Karl-Magnus Thulstrup as Crown Prince Gustav
Sven Bergvall as Christian Lundeberg, Swedish prime minister
Ragnar Widestedt as Fredrik Wachtmeister, Swedish foreign minister
Rune Carlsten as Karl Staaff, Swedish politician
Arne Lindblad as August Palm, Swedish politician
Willy Peters as Per Albin Hansson, Swedish politician
Carl Barcklind as Semmy Rubenson, Stockholm chief of police
Gösta Cederlund as Governor Curry Treffenberg
Stina Ståhle as Christina Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano
Georg Fernquist as Heinrich Robert Berns, a pastry chef
Hjalmar Meissner as August Meissner
Tord Bernheim as Hilding Nihlén, a dandy at Berns Salonger
Carin Swensson as Hulda Malmström, a Swedish actress
Carl Apolloff as Viscount António da Cunha Soto Maior, a Portuguese envoy