For a summer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | For a summer |
| Original title | Sommarlek |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 95 (90) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman Herbert Grevenius |
| production | Allan Ekelund |
| music |
Erik Nordgren Bengt Wallerström Eskil Eckert-Lundin |
| camera | Gunnar Fischer |
| cut | Oscar Rosander |
| occupation | |
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| synchronization | |
One summer (original title: Sommarlek ) is in black and white twisted Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman from the year 1951 .
action
In the midst of rehearsals for a performance of Swan Lake , the ballet dancer Marie receives a package: It contains the diary of her childhood sweetheart Henrik. After an argument with her friend David, a newspaper reporter, she spontaneously steps on a ferry that takes her to the island where she spent her youth.
In several long flashbacks , she recalls the summer 13 years ago when she fell in love with the student Henrik. The happy time together ended abruptly when Henrik died in a swimming accident. Marie sealed off her feelings from the outside world and got involved in an affair with her uncle Erland.
Marie meets her uncle and learns that he sent her Henrik's diary, but refuses to re-establish contact. Back at the theater there is another argument between David and her because, as he says, she refuses to fully engage in their relationship. She hands him Henrik's diary with the request that he read it to better understand her. The final scene suggests that the two will get closer.
background
Production and film launch
For one summer between April 3 and June 18, 1950, the film was shot at Råsunda Film Studios in Filmstaden , Solna , Saltsjöbaden and on Dalarö . The script was based in part on a manuscript written by Bergman in 1945. The film started - due to a crisis in the Swedish film industry - one year late, in Swedish cinemas on October 1, 1951 and in German cinemas on November 13, 1953 .
Position in Bergman's work
As in Durst (1949) and An die Freude (1950), Bergman dealt with his failed second marriage to Ellen Lundström and a relationship from a young age in One Summer Long .
For the author Hauke Lange-Fuchs , who specializes in Scandinavian films , One Summer also marked the start of a series of so-called summer films, which were set against the backdrop of the Swedish summer and mostly took on a cheerful tone that was unfamiliar to Bergman. In addition to One Summer Long , he counted among these , The Time with Monika (1953), Lesson in Love (1954) and The Smile of a Summer Night (1955).
Before the first flashback, a dark-clad figure representing death appears in One Summer , Henrik's terminally ill aunt who, contrary to all predictions, lives on. On her second appearance she is shown playing chess with the pastor. Journalist Stig Björkman saw her as a messenger of death and an anticipation of death in chess in The Seventh Seal (1957). Bergman confirmed, “Yes, she is death. It occurs at the moment when the piece darkens. "
Bergman was one of his most important films for a summer because it was the first time that he found his own style: "I suddenly knew that I was putting the camera in the right place, that I was getting the right results, that things were right."
reception
The reactions in the Swedish press were unanimously positive. The French filmmaker and critic Jean-Luc Godard described one summer as “one of the most beautiful films ever”.
The lexicon of international films judged in retrospect: "An analysis of interpersonal and erotic ties and the limits that are set for them by external circumstances and psychological dispositions."
The Protestant film observer drew the following conclusion: "A more melancholy than relentlessly revealing film by Ingmar Bergman."
Web links
- One summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c On the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation for one summer , accessed on July 31, 2012.
- ↑ a b For one summer in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ^ A b Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life. Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 82-85 and 276-277.
- ↑ a b Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman on Bergman. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , p. 61 u. Pp. 64-67.
- ↑ Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman on Bergman. Fischer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , pp. 81-82.
- ^ Jean-Luc Godard: Bergmanorama in Godard on Godard: Critical Writings, Secker & Warburg, London 1972, quoted from the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on July 31, 2012.
- ↑ Review No. 823/1953