A Swedish love story
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A Swedish love story |
| Original title | En kärlekshistoria |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roy Andersson |
| script | Roy Andersson |
| production |
Waldemar Bergendahl rune Hjelm |
| music | Björn Isfalt |
| camera | Jörgen Persson |
| cut | Kalle Boman |
| occupation | |
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A Swedish Love Story (OT: En kärlekshistoria ) is a Swedish feature film from 1969. It was the debut film by the Swedish director Roy Andersson , who had just finished his training.
action
Coincidence brings 14-year-old Annika and 15-year-old Pär together: When their relatives visit sick, they meet for the first time, but initially only exchange shy looks. Pär, like many of his peers on the moped , later looks for the girl on the streets of Stockholm , finds it - but neither of the two dares to speak to the other at first, which is why their friends have to help out with the first volumes.
And then the two live a short as well as long summer of being in love, in the clique and alone, undisturbed, untouched by the disappointments and adversities of the self-isolating adults with their neurotic bonds to each other and their unfulfilled hopes. When Annika's parents go on vacation for one night, Pär can spend the night and the two show affectionate tokens of love. They are surprised by Annika's aunt Eva, who shows understanding for her niece's emotional world and keeps Pär's overnight stay to herself. Annika later stayed with Pär and his parents for the first time, who run a car repair shop in the countryside outside of Stockholm. They spend time in nature, whose summer idyll is also reflected in their emotional worlds.
Annika's parents are invited to an evening garden party by Pär's parents. While Annika's mother is happy to escape her dreary life in the small Stockholm apartment, father John is visibly out of place at the party. The moderately successful, alcoholic businessman of a freezer company would like to see his daughter richly married - by no means with a “country girl” like Pär. Different world views and prejudices are discharged at the party and suddenly John has disappeared. When his hat is found in a neighboring pond, the other guests fear the worst and go in desperation to find him. Meanwhile, John reappears unscathed. Annika and Pär didn't notice anything of the commotion, because the adults were busy themselves they could spend the whole night together.
background
Andersson had initially offered his film idea to the production company Svensk Filmindustri under the working title 15 , but where it was rejected. However, shortly thereafter - now under the title En kärlekshistoria - the company Europa Film accepted it.
There is only one Swedish version with subtitles in different languages. The film was recorded between June 16 and August 26, 1969 and had its premiere on April 24, 1970 at the 'Saga' cinema in Stockholm. On October 31, 1971, the film ran for the first time on German television on ARD.
Reception and impact, awards
The film was a hit with audiences. It won the most important Swedish film award Guldbagge for 1970 in the Best Film category . At the Berlin Film Festival in the same year it won four prizes, including the award for the best manuscript and the journalists' award for the best film - as a replacement for the Golden Bear, which was not awarded that year for political reasons . The film first ran on Swedish television in 1986 and was repeated there in 1993, 2006 and 2007. A version with additional material and interviews was produced in 2003.
The importance of film in Sweden is made clear by an award from 2012: in a survey of critics and film scholars in Sweden by the film magazine FLM, the film was voted number 4 in the list of the best Swedish films of all time.
Reviews
“With his first work, the young Swedish director Roy Andersson created a simple and at the same time enchanting love story, far from any cinematic puss that has not been seen on screen since the 'Young Aphrodites' [...]. At the same time, his film portrays the broken relationship between young people and their parents and relatives, worn out by everyday life and marked by mediocrity, whose illusions of life have long since vanished. The film impresses with the play of its very young leading actors and as a psychogram of our society - it can be recommended to fourteen-year-olds without hesitation. "
"Unpretentious, but somewhat clichéd film attempt by the up-and-coming Swedish director Andersson."
"Predicate 'valuable'"
Web links
- A Swedish Love Story in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 296/1970, p. 303
- ↑ Guldbagge Awards http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000307/1970
- ↑ ”Körkarlen” utsedd till bästa film . In: Svenska Dagbladet of August 30, 2012, accessed on September 26, 2012 (Swedish).
- ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1968), p. 3361