Laila

Laila is a 1929 drama romance film written and directed by George Schnéevoigt. "Silent epic saga set in Norway's frozen far north, where a foundling child is rescued and brought up by reindeer herders. One of the glories of Scandinavian silent cinema, setting it apart from the rest of fledgling European production, was its use of natural landscape settings - some of the most spectacular in the world - which, coupled with a literary tradition based on the Nordic sagas, lent itself to epic filmmaking of the purest kind. Norwegian cinema more or less bowed out of the silent period in 1929 with Laila, a splendidly sprawling adventure of the frozen Far North, replete with reindeer, wolves, Lapps and ice-melting passions. Ranged across several.