Public Domain
Trädgårdsmästaren
1912 · Svenska Biografteatern · Dir. Victor Sjöström
A gardener's son has fallen in love with the daughter of one of the workers at the nursery, and the two are married. The gardener then kicks his progeny off the property and begins to act despicably toward his son's wife.
Confidence
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Why this status applies
The film 'Trädgårdsmästaren' (The Gardener), directed by Victor Sjöström, was released in Sweden in 1912. Under US copyright law, all works published anywhere in the world before January 1, 1929, have entered the public domain in the United States due to the expiration of the maximum possible copyright term (95 years from publication).
Furthermore, this film is historically significant for having been banned by Swedish censors upon its release, and it was considered lost for decades until a copy was rediscovered in the Library of Congress archives in 1979. Regardless of its survival status or its origin in Sweden, the 1912 publication date places it definitively in the public domain under current US statutes (17 USC § 304).
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