The Clang of the Pick

The Clang of the Pick (Swedish: Hård klang) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson and starring Victor Sjöström, Edvin Adolphson and Margit Carlqvist. It was shot at the Kungsholmen Studios of Nordisk Tonefilm in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Bibi Lindström.

Synopsis
The village of Brovik on the coast of Småland in southern Sweden is transformed from a small agricultural settlement into a booming port due to the development of a granite quarrying by a German industrialist Klaus Willenhart in the late nineteenth century. By the First World War his son Frans has taken over the business and identifies strongly with the local community in neutral Sweden. By contrast his father, wife Vera and brother Gert are strongly committed to the German Empire and the cause of victory. Vera leaves Frans and goes with her brother-in-law, an on officer in the Kaiser's army, to work as a nurse.

Frans bonds with Minka, the niece of a local stonemason who bitterly resents the wealthy German family, and they ultimately become lovers. When a naval mine drifts towards the village, Frans detonates it with a rifle and is fatally wounded by shrapnel.

Cast

 * Victor Sjöström as 	Klaus Willenhart
 * Edvin Adolphson as 	Frans Willenhart
 * John Elfström as 	Olof Rydberg
 * Margit Carlqvist as 	Minka
 * Nils Hallberg as 	Teofil
 * Rolf von Nauckhoff as 	Gert Willenhart
 * Naima Wifstrand as 	Narrator / Clothes Saleswoman
 * Eva Bergh as 	Vera
 * Erik Hell as 	Johan
 * Magnus Kesster as 	Verk-Masse
 * Dagmar Ebbesen as Hanna
 * Axel Högel as 	Svenske Fredrik
 * Wiktor Andersson as 	Karlsson
 * Sten Mattsson as 	Börje
 * Gösta Gustafson as 	Hornvall
 * Svea Holst as 	Mrs. Karlsson
 * Hedvig Lindby as 	Old Villager
 * John Norrman as 	Secretary
 * Birger Åsander as 	Arvid
 * Gunnar Öhlund as Stone Mason
 * Ingemar Holde as 	Fiddle player
 * Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt as	Fiddle player
 * John Melin as 	Guest at the party