Womens dreams
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Womens dreams |
| Original title | Kvinnodröm |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1955 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Rune forest wreath |
| music | Erik Nordgren |
| camera | Hilding Bladh |
| cut | Carl-Olov Skeppstedt |
| occupation | |
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Woman Dreams (Original title: Kvinnodröm ) is in black and white twisted Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman from the year 1955 .
action
Fashion photographer Susanne and her model Doris go to Gothenburg to take a photo shoot . The flighty Doris has just separated from her fiancé Palle in high spirits, Susanne is following the affair with the married businessman Henrik, with whom she has had no contact for months. When she arrived in Gothenburg, Susanne observed Henrik's house from a supposedly safe distance, but was discovered by his wife. Meanwhile, Doris is approached by the older consul Sönderby in front of a shop and succumbs to his requests to buy her expensive clothes and jewelry. She forgets her photo session because of the shopping, for which Susanne makes her violent.
Doris spends an exuberant afternoon with Sönderby, but it suddenly turns when his daughter Marianne shows up to ask for money. Father and daughter accuse each other of callousness and greed for money, and Marianne humiliates Doris. Doris leaves the house, leaving her presents behind, Sönderby is lost in thought. Meanwhile, Susanne was able to persuade Henrik to visit her in her hotel room. After his initial refusal to revive the affair, they sleep together. She admits that she longs for him and they arrange to meet again during his business trip to Oslo . Henrik's wife has since found out her husband's whereabouts; in the hotel room she confronts Susanne with the fact that she will never own Henrik, since he will only find adventure with Susanne, but calm and reliability with his wife. Henrik does not contradict her, and Susanne lets him go away with his wife, both disappointed and desperate.
Susanne and Doris are going back to Stockholm . Doris reconciles with Palle, Susanne receives a letter from Henrik in which he asks her to meet him in Oslo despite their farewell. Susanne tears up the letter, covering up her agitation.
background
Production and film launch
Frauenträume was created between June and August 1954 in the studios of the production company Sandrew, Stockholm, and in Gothenburg. Additional scenes were filmed in February 1955. The film opened in Swedish cinemas on August 22, 1955.
Woman dreams ran in Germany not in cinemas, but was first on 19 August 1963 at the German television of the ARD broadcast. The film first ran in the East German DFF on September 19, 1970.
Position in Bergman's work
Frauenträume was the third film in a series of comedies starring Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand , starting with the "Elevator Episode" from Sehnsucht der Frauen (1952) and Lektion in Liebe (1954). However, Bergman did not put Björnstrand on the side of Dahlbeck, but of Harriet Andersson , and instead chose Ulf Palme as Dahlbeck's partner. The film, planned as "compensation" to the production studio Sandrew for the financially unsuccessful evening of the jugglers (1953), but also failed at the box office, and Bergman returned with The Smile of a Midsummer Night (1955), the last film in the comedy series back to its regular producer Svensk Filmindustri .
Although intended as a comedy, women's dreams are rather dramatic over long periods, especially in the episode Susanne / Henrik, but also in the finale of the episode Doris / Sönderby. Bergman said: “Harriet and I [had] ended our relationship. We were both pretty sad. This sadness weighs down the film. There is an interesting connection between two stories that lead into one another. But Frauentraum [sic] is heavily burdened by depression and never lifts off the ground. "
criticism
“'Women's Dreams' is great, but indifferent entertainment. It's basically filled with stencils, although each character develops features to make the discerning audience believe they are seeing something extraordinary. "
“'Frauenträume' contains poetry in many forms: exaggerated, drastic, comical, precisely true and even everyday - but it is film poetry. And yet 'Frauenträume' is only a 'seamless' film on the outside. Under the surface it is like a roller coaster ride, as shown in one of the episodes. [...] The author Bergman has trouble keeping up with the virtuoso filmmaker. "
“One of those Bergman films whose theme is the inner emancipation of women. But this time the director treats his conflict indecisively. "
Web links
- Woman dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Women's dreams on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ a b Women's Dreams in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ^ Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 110-121.
- ^ Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 165–168.
- ↑ "Kvinnodröm är perfect men likgiltig underhållning. Den är i grund och botten fylld med stencils även om varje figur får några speciella särdrag avsedda att kittla den sofistikerade publiken till att tro att de bevittnar något märkvärdigt. ”- Review by Harry Schein in Bonniers Litterära Magasin, quoted from the website of Ingmarära Magasin Bergman Foundation, accessed September 20, 2012. (Only included on the Swedish version of the website.)
- ↑ "Kvinnodröm rymmer poesi i många uppenbarelser; dramatiskt överspänd, drastisk, komisk, träffsäker sann eller rent av banal - men filmpoesi ar det. Changes to Kvinnodröm inte mer and till det yttre en 'helgjuten' film. Invandes löper the berg- och dalbana som i en av sina episoder. Det är en Färd mellan det förtätat uttrycksfulla och det skäligen lättvindiga, som jag vill Spara till ett motsatsförhållande mellan diktaren och filmskaparen inom Ingmar Bergman. Diktaren är osäkrare i Greppet och har svårt att hinna med filmskaparens utveckling mot det virtuosa "- review of Mauritz Edström in Arbetaren, cited from the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on September 20, 2012. (Only included in the Swedish version of the website.)