it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.
Lars "Lång-Lasse" Landgren
Matilda
Margit Bryngel
Klas Hägglund i Backa
Tratt-Lasse Bryngel
Mickel Hansson
Tuvesson i Häggnäset
Näslund
Lotta Bryngel
Björn Tuvesson
Fru Näslund
Halvar i Bakmossen
Ekstedt
Tjyv-Pelle
Brännar-Ante's woman
Klas Hägglund's mother
Björn's mother
Mrs Andersson
Brännar-Ante
Skinnar-Jonte
Per Olsson i Överälven
Törnberg i Rismyra
Mrs Andersson's stepdaughter
Indecent woman
Törnbergs Malena i Rismyra
Kjellstedt
Olle Pryl
Pelle Borst
Hägglund i Backa
Petter i Lilltorp
Petter's wife
Narrator
Doctor Martin Johansson