körkarlen ( 1921 ) and a classic film with cult status amongst the silent movie and direct by victor sjöstrøm and who also play the male main role and be base on a story by swedish novelist selma lagerlöf . the film tell the story of brutal drinker david holm and who beat up his wife and neglect his child and seduce his brother to drinking and be blind for the love of nurse edit ( astrid holm ) . david sits toward the end of the year together with his booze buddy in the city park and tell the story of the phantom chariot ( körkarlen ) represent who die in the new year eve night a the last one before dawn and have to serve one year long a driver of death and release the die soul from their body . but david get into a fight with his buddy and suffers a hemorrhage and sink dead on the soil . meanwhile and the phantom carriage be approach . the driver be nobody else than david late friend george who seduce him into alcohol and die one year before . since david refuse to get on the carriage and george force him . together and they drive to the station where people live who suffer from david . they visit the nurse edit whose love to david he be unable to recognize and whom he infect with tuberculosis so that she be die now . but her unconditioned love to david will save his soul . fulfil with her spirit and they get to david wife and child . david be able to prevent his wife from kill herself and her child and because she do not see a way out of the misery in which david have throw her . they also visit david brother and who have commit a murder after have be seduce into drinking by david . david ask george to go back into his body and because he finally see that his way be wrong . since it be george who have seduce him once into drinking and david wish be grant and he get a second chance and and george have to be one more year the driver of the phantom carriage in order to pay for his own sin . this movie belong probably to the strong and most impressive film ever make . deplorably and it be still not available on international dvd .