The Touch (1971)

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Movie
German title The Touch
The touch
Original title The Touch
Beröringen
Country of production Sweden
USA
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ingmar Bergman
script Ingmar Bergman
production Ingmar Bergman
camera Sven Nykvist
cut Siv Lundgren
occupation
synchronization

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The Touch (alternative: Die contact , original title: The Touch or Beröringen ) is a Swedish - American film drama by Ingmar Bergman from 1971 .

action

Karin lives with her husband Andreas, a hospital doctor, and their two children in a small community in rural Sweden. She meets David, descendant of Jews who fled Nazi Germany , who is involved in the restoration of a nearby church. After he frankly explained to her that he was in love with her, she got into an affair with him. David turns out to be not only a passionate man, but also vacillating between depression and violent outbursts of anger. Nevertheless, she continues the affair until the residents of the village of Andreas report Karin's adultery. When David goes back to London unannounced, Karin follows him, although Andreas gives her an ultimatum. In London, however, she only meets David's sister. Karin decides to stay with her husband and family. At their last meeting in Sweden, when Karin tried to explain her motives to David, he called her a liar. Your relationship has ended irrevocably.

background

“ The Touch wants to be banal, everyday. The film was originally conceived as a portrait of a woman - and not a brilliant, great woman of the world, but a good citizen who leads a sheltered existence, far from the world of catastrophes, currents, neuroses that surround us. "( Bergman)

The Touch was created between September and November 1970 in Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland and in London. The film was shot in a version in which the Swedish actors speak Swedish and English and the English speakers speak English and, at the request of the co-producer ABC Pictures, also in a purely English version. The latter made it to the cinemas, the bilingual version was thought to be lost, but is now available again. Gunnar Fischer , Bergman's regular cameraman from 1948 to 1960, designed the titles .

After its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1971 , the film opened in Swedish cinemas on August 18, 1971, in the FRG on January 14, 1972 and on December 14, 1973 (under the title The Touch ) in the GDR .

reception

The Touch received mixed reviews. Der Spiegel wrote on the occasion of the screening at the Berlinale: “Ingmar Bergman's 35th feature film, shot for a US company in Sweden, has recently been his best and worst in one. Up to half of the medium-sized love story [...] dominates small talk, slapstick cheerfulness and an intimate chamber play that is unusual even for Bergman. Later, when the now abandoned and yet again coveted beloved of a blessed body stays with husband and children, the plot slips into the trivial commercial, even the massive Bergman touch in the finale (death symbols, autumn leaves) saves nothing. ”The lexicon of the international film summed up In retrospect: “A remarkably smooth and very conventionally staged film; Psychologically accurate and technically perfect, the psychological search for clues is burdened with overly intrusive symbols. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinéma en Suède No. 2, 1971, quoted from Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman on Bergman, Fischer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , pp. 305-308.
  2. ↑ a b c The Touch on the Ingmar Bergman Foundation website , accessed on July 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , p. 78.
  4. ^ Biography of Gunnar Fischer on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on September 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Archive of the Berlinale 1971 , accessed on July 19, 2012.
  6. ^ A b The Touch in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used .
  7. ↑ Short criticism at the Berlinale coverage in Der Spiegel 28/1971 of 5 July 1971 called on 20 July 2012 found.