Gustaf Edgren (1895-1954) made his debut as a autodidact film director in 1922 with a Värmland folk play based on his own script, which was produced on his own company. From that moment on, the road was straight as nails. Edgren made 32 more feature films over the next 30 years. The first six films were made for the company Värmlandsfilm. In 1927 he joined Swedish Film Industry SF and became the company's most profitable director for two decades. He was nicknamed Värmlands-Griffith.—SFdb