With: a clown

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Movie
German title With: a clown
Original title Larmar och gör sig till
Country of production Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Italy
Finland
Germany
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1997
length 119 minutes
Rod
Director Ingmar Bergman
script Ingmar Bergman
production Måns Reuterswärd
Pia Ehrnvall
camera Tony Forsberg
Per Norén
Raymond Wemmenlöv
Sven-Åke Visén
cut Sylvia Ingemarsson
occupation

Included : A clown (original title: Larmar och gör sig till ) is a Swedish - Danish - Norwegian - Italian - Finnish - German television film by Ingmar Bergman from 1997 .

action

Uppsala 1925: Carl Åkerblom is in a psychiatric ward after seriously injuring his fiancée Pauline in a fit of rage. His new fellow patient Osvald Vogler tells him about the fate of a young Viennese prostitute, Mizzi Veith, who drowned herself. At night, death appears to Carl in the form of the clown Rigmor (= Rigor mortis ). Carl and Vogler come up with a film together that will focus on the fictional romance between Franz Schubert and Mizzi. Carl wants to bring out the film titled “The Pleasures of a Joyful Girl ” as a sound film by going on tour with a previously produced silent film with actors and musicians who record or record the dialogues and music during the performance. It is to be financed from the assets of Vogler's wealthy young wife.

Some time later: The tour has arrived in the provincial town where Carl grew up. The cast has shrunk to Carl, Pauline and Vogler due to internal quarrels, accompanied by a sick projectionist . The evening performance, which only a handful of curious people and Carl's half-sister attend, has to be stopped because of a fire in the fuse box. The three actors decide to show the film as an improvised play instead. During the performance, the messenger of death Rigmor appears again to Carl. In the final, Vogler is picked up, whose wife has arranged for him to be re-admitted to psychiatry. Carl and Pauline manage to end the performance. Later, in another fit of anger, Carl turns first against Pauline, then against himself by opening his wrists. Pauline announces that if he dies, she will follow him.

background

Production and film launch

The script for This: A Clown is based on a play by Ingmar Bergman, which, like the film, is called Larmar och gör sig till , but was not performed. It takes up motifs from a historical trial that was carried out in Vienna in 1908 and 1909 against the father of a young prostitute - Mizzi Veith - and which aroused great public sympathy.

The film, made in international co-production, was broadcast on November 1, 1997 on Swedish television and on May 24, 1998 on German television. Also in May 1998 was It: A clown at the Cannes International Film Festival as part of the Un certain regard series .

Position in Bergman's work

A clown was Bergman's first film work since Die Gesegneten (1986). In addition to newer regular Bergman ensemble members such as Börje Ahlstedt , Marie Richardson and Pernilla August , the film also brought together veterans such as its regular actor Erland Josephson , Inga Landgré , the leading actress in his debut film Kris (1944), and Anita Björk from Sehnsucht der Frauen (1952).

The character of Carl Åkerblom appeared in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (1982) as well as in the films he wrote The Best Intentions (1992, directed by Bille August ) and The Sunday Children ( Söndagsbarn ) (1992, directed by Daniel Bergman ).

Reviews

“A late work by Ingmar Bergman that was created for television and deals ironically and bitterly with theater and cinema. [The story] condenses into an at once ironic and profoundly sad homage to theater and cinema, those two companions Bergman who determined his life. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Including: A clown on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on September 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ Birgitta Steene: Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide, Amsterdam University Press 2005, ISBN 9053564063 , p. 800.
  3. ↑ a b Including: A clown in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used .