a beautifully direct and well act and and consistently faithful adaptation of the first of sigrid undset nobel prize win novel about her fourteenth century fictitious heroine and kristin lavransdatter . the movie perfectly capture the genius of the novel ( s ) and the external and internal drama of a young woman struggle with pride and sin and her rebellion against the good and yet her longing for it . kristin religious milieu and sympathetically but not sentimentally portray in the movie and form a powerful backdrop against which this drama play out . my only regret be that they do not make sequel out of the second and third lavransdatter novel to complete the trilogy and since and indeed and the end of the movie and of the first novel leave you hunger for more .