Thirst (1949)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | thirst |
| Original title | Foolish |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish German |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 (formerly 18) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Herbert Grevenius |
| production | Helge Hagerman |
| music | Erik Nordgren |
| camera | Gunnar Fischer |
| cut | Oscar Rosander |
| occupation | |
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Thirst (Original title: törst ) is in black and white twisted Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman from the year 1949 . The script is based on several short stories by Birgit Tengroth .
action
After their vacation, Rut and her husband Bertil travel by train through Germany , which was destroyed by World War II , back to their home country Sweden. Outwardly harmonious, the marriage of the two is actually unhappy, which is mainly due to Rut's mood swings. She is hysterical, has insomnia and alcohol addiction. While ruins and starving, begging residents pass by in front of the train window, Rut remembers her former lover Raoul.
As a young girl, Ruth had an affair with the older, married officer Raoul. When he became pregnant, Ruth forced her to have an abortion. The procedure led to health complications, Rut became sterile and Raoul turned away from her. There were also physical problems that harmed Ruth's career as a dancer. Her friend Valborg, also a dancer, turned to other women out of disgust at men.
Ruth's husband Bertil is pursuing a past liaison with the widow Viola, who, like Rut, is emotionally unstable. Parallel to Rut's and Bertil's homeward journey, the film depicts how Viola flees from a torturing psychiatrist, meets Rut's friend Valborg, who makes her openly homoerotic advances, and finally commits suicide.
Meanwhile, the tensions between Rut and Bertil have escalated to such an extent that he appears to kill them in affect. He wakes up and finds that Ruth's murder was just a dream. The couple decide to give their marriage another chance.
background
Production and film launch
After the financial failure of his previous film Prison (1949), the film production company Terrafilm had terminated the collaboration with Bergman, whereupon Svensk Filmindustri commissioned him with a new project.
Durst is based on a collection of short stories published by actress Birgit Tengroth in 1948. In her own words she had tried to provide the literary proof that every woman can be destroyed by a man. Herbert Grevenius wrote the script with Bergman's assistance. Grevenius and Bergman had already worked together on the script for It rains on our love in 1946 .
Bergman entrusted Birgit Tengroth with the role of viola. According to his own statement, the author helped him with the cinematic implementation of the lesbian episode. The indoor shots took place from March 15 to April 9, 1949, the outdoor shots from June 29 to July 5, 1949. The locations were the Filmstaden studio in Solna near Stockholm , Ornö and Basel in Switzerland.
The world premiere of Durst took place in Sweden on October 17, 1949. Bergman's film was first shown in the Federal Republic of Germany on April 14, 1953, after the film had previously been banned by the German examination board as being “morally ill” and “destructive”.
The French critic and director François Truffaut believed he could see similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's films Finally We're Rich (1931) and Suspicion (1941).
Position in Bergman's work
Bergman processed in Durst and in two other films, An die Freude (1950) and One Summer Long (1951), his failed second marriage to Ellen Lundström. In the drawing of people he was based on his predecessor film prison , which is why film historian Jörn Donner viewed Durst as a “commercial version” of prison .
Starting with thirst , according to the film historians Ulrich Gregor and Enno Patalas , Bergman placed older couples at the center of his stories in his films, as before, young lovers who defend themselves against a hostile environment.
The scene in which Valborg lights her and Rut's face with a match goes back to an idea by Birgit Tengroth. Bergman later varied the scene in The Hour of the Wolf (1968).
criticism
In retrospect, the lexicon of international film judged : "As a stage on the director's artistic development path, the film, which is convincing due to its detailed observation, is of interest."
DVD release
Durst is available internationally on DVD , in Germany from Kinowelt / Arthaus.
literature
- Birgit Tengroth: Thirst. Five novellas, Akros Verlag, Hamburg 1953.
- Ingmar Bergman: Laterna Magica. Mein Leben, Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89581-093-2 .
Web links
- Thirst in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article in Der Spiegel No. 29/1951 about Bergman's films Hafenstadt , Durst and An die Freude
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 71-72 u. 83-84.
- ↑ a b Durst ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on June 9, 2012.
- ↑ a b Durst in: Das große TV-Spielfilm-Filmlexikon (CD-ROM), Directmedia Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-036-1 .
- ↑ a b Durst in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Quoted from Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , p. 32.
- ^ Ingmar Bergman: Bilder, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , p. 138.
