It's raining on our love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | It's raining on our love |
| Original title | Det regnar on vår kärlek |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script |
Herbert Grevenius Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Lorens Marmstedt |
| music | Erland von Koch (as Erland von Kock) |
| camera |
Göran Strindberg Hilding Bladh |
| cut | Days Holmberg |
| occupation | |
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It's raining on our love (Original title: Det regnar på vår kärlek ) is a Swedish drama from 1946 shot in black and white . The film, based on a play by the Norwegian author Oskar Braaten , was Ingmar Bergman's second directorial work.
action
Maggi, whose dream of becoming an actress has failed, and David, who spent a year in prison for theft, fall in love after a night together. Without money, shelter or employment, they break into a summer house. They are surprised by the owner, Mr. Håkansson, who, after calling in the police, agrees to rent the hut to them. David finds a job in a nearby nursery, and the two soon make friends with neighbors from the surrounding huts, who are also less well-off. But Maggi refuses a marriage proposal from David. Håkansson visits the couple again and gives them the choice of buying the hut or moving out within a short period of time. Maggi asks David not to make the purchase and admits that she is expecting a child from a previous love affair. David runs away furiously, but then decides to accept the strange child and signs the purchase contract for the hut. When city officials learned of Maggi's pregnancy, they forced her to move to a maternity hospital to have her child. The child is stillborn the same day David learns that he should be released because of his criminal past. Shortly after Maggi's return, a law enforcement officer appears on their property and tells them that the area is to be cleared of the city; Håkansson sold them a worthless property. Out of anger at the officer’s ruthless attitude, David beats him up. He is charged and tried, but the public defender (who also acts as the narrator in the film) can obtain an acquittal. Maggi and David decide to face all adversities and look for a new place to stay together.
background
Despite the failure of Bergman's debut film Kris , the independent Swedish producer Lorens Marmstedt Bergman offered to direct his next film for him and the production company Sveriges Folkbiografer . Bergman accepted the offer and revised the script written by Herbert Grevenius based on Oskar Braaten's play Bra mennesker (Eng. "Good People"). (The play had already been filmed under its original title in Norway in 1937.) Bergman later noted that his authorship was limited to the final court hearing.
The four-week shooting took place in Stockholm in early summer 1946 . It rains on our love celebrated its Swedish premiere on November 9, 1946 , and according to Bergman the film was "a modest critical success ". In the FRG , the film was not shown in cinemas, but was only shown on television on January 14, 1978.
In her Bergman monograph , Marianne Höök found influences from Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert in Es rains on our love . In an interview, Jonas Sima suspected the influence of film noir , which Bergman confirmed. In the same interview, Bergman described Michael Curtiz's films as significant for his development: "He had the ability to tell a story in a perfectly clear and simple and honest way, just like Raoul Walsh ."
Position in Bergman's work
In addition to lead actor Birger Malmsten , It rains on our love also gathered some of Bergman's later regular actors such as Gunnar Björnstrand and Åke Fridell in supporting roles . Scriptwriter and film critic Herbert Grevenius, who had supported Bergman's engagements at the city theaters of Helsingborg and Gothenburg , worked a. a. together with the director in Durst (1949) and One Summer Long (1951).
criticism
“An early Bergman film, the gesture and intention of an angry young man; in spite of photographic and acting qualities but without stylistic coherence. "
Web links
- It Rains on Our Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c It's raining on our love on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on September 9, 2012.
- ^ Bra mennesker in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman on Bergman, Fischer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , p. 39.
- ↑ Ingmar Bergman: Bilder, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 116-122.
- ↑ a b It rains on our love in the lexicon of international films .
- ^ Marianne Höök: Bergman, Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm 1962.