The Saga of Gösta Berling (Swedish: Gösta Berlings saga) is a 1924 Swedish romantic drama film co-written and directed by Mauritz Stiller and released by Svensk Filmindustri (SF), starring Lars Hanson, Gerda Lundequist and Greta Garbo in her domestic film breakthrough.

In Värmland, the (fictional) estate of "Ekeby" is home to a company of twelve "Cavaliers," former soldiers who often spend their time as drunk guests of Margaretha Samzelius, wife of a former army major.

On Christmas Eve, Gösta Berling, a defrocked Lutheran minister, leads evening revels and tricks the company with an appearance of a "devil," played by household servant Sintram.

Berling eventually learns of Ebba's death, apparently from grief, and Margaretha reveals how she had left home under the curse of her mother because of her own love for a man.

Berling takes her back to Ekeby but tries to keep her presence confidential since she has fallen ill. Margarethe returns to the cottage where her mother still lives, seeking forgiveness.

As the old woman collapses and lies dying, there is a partial reconciliation but Margarethe realizes that she must atone for her past by driving the Cavaliers out of Ekeby.

Margarethe, driven by her own guilt and rage, assembles a party to set fire to the wing of Ekeby housing the Cavaliers to exile them.

However, the fire gets out of control and begins to burn the central mansion housing Marianne, whom Berling saves from the flames just as her father arrives, now relieved that she is safe.

[2] In 2008, a Swedish DVD was released by AB Svensk Filmindustri, with English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and German subtitles.