An-Magritt

An-Magritt is raped into life. Her mother is sentenced to the pillory for her sin and then commits suicide. The grandfather is the one who has to raise An-Magritt. She grows up in a Norwegian mountain village in the 1600s, in a typical male society. She is alone among the men and has to fight the same harsh battles that they do. Through the biting winter cold they drive ore from the mines to the smelting furnaces. To this society of deprivation and struggle comes a remarkable stranger named Johannes. And Johannes brings love to An-Magritts life. Now a sense of ambition is awakened in her that no one can stop. She is no longer merely fighting against the storms and the cold. (Norsk Filminstitutt)