 The film was directed by Jacques Feyder using the same cinematographer, Garbo favorite William H. Daniels, but a different crew.Chris Christofferson (Hans Junkermann), the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge in New York, receives a letter from his estranged twenty-year-old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson (Greta Garbo).She tells him that she'll be leaving Minnesota to stay with him.