Husmandstøsen is a 1952 Danish family film directed by Alice O'Fredericks.

It is based on the 1908 novella The Girl from the Marsh Croft by Nobel Prize winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.

[1] In the windswept heathland around 1900, the poor Helga leaves her home to work on a farm.

He refuses to acknowledge paternity, and expelled from the local community, Helga now has to fight alone to stay alive.

In times of need, she gets a place at Torpegård, where Gudmund lives with his old mother.