The Devil's Eye (1960)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The devil's eye |
| Original title | Djävulens öga |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Allan Ekelund |
| music | Erik Nordgren |
| camera | Gunnar Fischer |
| cut | Oscar Rosander |
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The Devil's Eye (premiere title Die Jungfrauenbrücke , original title Djävulens öga ) is a Swedish comedy film by Ingmar Bergman from 1960, shot in black and white .
action
20-year-old Britt-Marie will be married as a virgin. Hell cannot tolerate this success of heaven, according to the saying "Innocence is a grain of barley in the eye of the devil". The devil sends his best seducer, Don Juan , who atones for his crimes there, to earth for a day and a night to get Britt-Marie to "sin".
Don Juan's servant Pablo is also allowed to go with him. Events arranged by the devil lead them to the rectory, Britt's parental home. Don Juan and Pablo cannot hold back long and use every opportunity to seduce the wife of the bona fide pastor and his daughter. Pablo, who is actually forbidden, succeeds in the seduction.
Don Juan, however, is gripped by love and wants to keep Britt for a good marriage. Although Britt is ready to surrender to him, don Juan and Pablo travel back to hell when the night is over, where the devil awaits them angrily.
Britt enters into her virginal marriage to Jonas, but in the end Satan triumphs because Britt immediately begins to lie. She claims that she has never kissed another man, but according to her testimony, don Juan was the 37th man she kissed just for fun. Satan's stye disappears.
This action is embedded in a lean framework in which the three acts of the main action presented as a film are presented in a manner comparable to a mixture of the prelude to the theater and the prologue in heaven , for example after the first act: “There are people who are serious claim that God is dead or that he never existed, the sky is empty and eternity is intangible. They claim that evil is a cold and factually functioning machine similar to the laws of nature and that good is just an accidental and abstract perversion in the life of mankind. Such points of view are an excellent basis for tragedy, but we are in a comedy… ”.
background
Ingmar Bergman said he was not interested in the material. In order to accommodate Carl Anders Dymling from the production company Svensk Filmindustri , who in turn had reservations about Bergman's dream project The Jungfrauenquelle , he agreed to direct both films.
The Devil's Eye opened in Swedish cinemas on October 17, 1960 and in German cinemas on January 11, 1966 . The movie title Die Jungfrauenbrücke was changed to Das Teufelsauge for the TV first broadcast in 1971 .
Reviews
“Completion of a series of metaphysical love comedies that Ingmar Bergman shot in the 1950s. The frivolous elegance of the staging and the ambitious literary symbolic language sometimes seem a bit tense and pretentious. "
“A theater-like comedy by Bergman that lacks dynamism and satirical power, so that it seems more dusty and boring than skillful and witty. From 18 without any recommendation. "
Web links
- The devil's eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Das Teufelsauge on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on July 9, 2012.
- ↑ a b The Devil's Eye in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ TV program overview in Der Spiegel 38/1971 of September 13, 1971, accessed on July 9, 2012.
- ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, No. 237/1966, p. 461