Hedebyborna Season 1 (1978)
Hedebyborna Season 1 Episodes
Part 1
Carl-Sebastian Urse, called Mon Cousin, makes in 1937 a visit to his native place Hedeby. His cousin, the baron Carl Gustaf Urse, still runs the family estate Valla, but is in financial difficulties. He has to borrow money from the bank as well as from the local farmer Lille-Lars, and now there is a wildcat strike at his lime-works as well. His wife, the baroness Louise Urse, is an alcoholic. To get some relief from his financial and matrimonial problems Carl Gustaf spends his spare time chasing young women. At the moment his desire is focused on Märta Svensson, the ...
Part 2
Sixten Svensson is work-shy. He avoids employments and he doesn't want to work at home either. Because of this his family sinks into poverty, and his wife has to beg her parents for money and their neighbors for food. Their daughter Märta is well aware that baron Urse is highly interested in her. She dreams of getting married to the baron and to live a fashionable life with him, but his wife forms an obstacle to this. When the baron offers her an appointment as a housemaid, she declines the offer because of his wife. Outside the village shop some of the villagers are ...
