In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.
as Aasmund Venaas, fiddler
as Gutorm Øverland
as Ingerid, Aasmund's wife
as Torgrim, as a child
as Torgrim, as an adult
as Halvor, a service boy
as Hege, milkmaid
as Gunnlaug, Guttorm's sister
as Kari, Gunlaug's daughter as a child
as Kari, as an adult
as Huldra
as Magistrate
as Fridjof Bergh, a tourist
as Priest