The Child

The classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja and Harald Heide Steen as her unfaithful boyfriend JuliusMilja and Julius are a happy couple working at the factory and everything is good until Petrina shows up at the arena Julius is bewitched by the girl who gets him to drink and stealMilja is soon left alone with the shame and a bastard child The child is placed with HønseLovisa while Milja is at the factory but a doctor casts his eyes on Miljas young Hes looking for children to adopt to rich westside people In her desperation Milja gives away the dearest thing she owns for the kid to have better conditions than she manages to give himIt is HønseLovisa that convinces her that the material benefits can never compensate for real love and care