Autumn sonata
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Autumn sonata Höstsonatas |
| Country of production |
Sweden , Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Ingmar Bergman |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Sylvia Ingemarsson |
| occupation | |
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Herbstsonate is a Swedish - German film drama directed by Ingmar Bergman from 1978. The drama about a mother-daughter relationship, filmed in Norway, was the last feature film in which Ingrid Bergman took part.
action
Charlotte Andergast, a famous concert pianist, visits her daughter Eva in rural Norway on an autumn weekend. The last time they met seven years ago. Eva is married to Viktor, the pastor of the local parish, but cannot return her husband's love. The two children drowned in an accident a few years ago, and later Eva took over the care of her sick sister Helena, whom Charlotte had placed in an expensive private clinic years ago. The paralyzed Helena cannot walk, only Eva can understand her severely restricted speech.
Through the visit Eva hopes to get closer to her mother. The selfish Charlotte, whose longtime partner Leonardo died recently and left her lonely, does not seem averse to a closer bond with her daughter. The initially good mood suddenly evaporates when Charlotte is confronted with the presence of Helena. The mother reacts angrily. Eva explains that she brought her sister to live with her to give her the love and care she needs. Desperate and determined at the same time, Charlotte immediately exposes herself to a confrontation and confidently covers up her insecurity.
On the first evening Eva wants to play Frédéric Chopin's Prelude No. 2 in A minor to her mother to please her. Charlotte is benevolent, but when asked by her daughter, she criticizes playing the piano as too sentimental and demonstrates powerfully and coolly how to interpret the piece better.
Charlotte later has a nightmare in which her daughter Helena first strokes her hand and then threatens to crush her. In a nocturnal conversation in the kitchen Eva blames her mother for Helena's physical suffering as well as for her own psychological suffering. Charlotte had concentrated on her music career and was always on tour; neither the daughters nor their father received the attention they needed. The problems remained unspoken, so from childhood Eva learned to suppress her feelings. Eva blames the lack of maternal love for her inability to have a loving and trusting relationship with her husband. Shaken by the daughter's allegations, Charlotte Eva reveals that she too never received love from her mother in her childhood. She asks Eve to free her from the guilt that she has had for years. Charlotte's humanity can only be found in her piano playing, but not in real life, as Eva has to recognize.
The next day, Charlotte leaves hastily. Eve seems to emerge strengthened from the events; if she had initially hoped to get closer to her mother, she could find herself in the course of events. She writes her mother a letter in which she takes back most of what has been said, which leaves an opportunity for later reconciliation between daughter and mother.
During the train ride to the next concert, Charlotte lets her grief run free. Her old friend and agent Paul wants to comfort her, but she withdraws her hand from him.
background
Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman's first planned joint project was the film adaptation of the novel Chefen Fru Ingeborg by Hjalmar Bergman . The project didn't go through, but the director promised her to make a film together at a later date. When the two met again at the 1973 Cannes International Film Festival , where the actress presided over the jury, she reminded him of the promise he had made. Four years later he offered her the lead role in Herbstsonata . For the second female lead, he was able to engage Liv Ullmann , who, like Gunnar Björnstrand and Erland Josephson, was one of his regular actors.
The shooting of Herbstsonate took place between September and November 1977 in Norway. At the time, Ingmar Bergman was living in his self-chosen “exile” in Germany after being briefly accused of tax evasion in Sweden. His Munich- based company Personafilm produced the film with the support of the British ITC Film, among others . Autumn Sonata celebrated its Swedish premiere under the title Höstsonaten on October 8, 1978. In the FRG the film opened on October 19, 1978, in the GDR on November 23, 1979. The first broadcast on German television was on May 24, 1981 at 8:15 pm on ZDF.
Several classical compositions can be heard in the film, the Prelude No. 2a by Frédéric Chopin (interpreted by Käbi Laretei ), Johann Sebastian Bach's French Suite No. 4 in E flat major (interpreted by Claude Genetay ) and the Sonata for recorder and basso continuo in F major, HWV 369 by Georg Friedrich Händel (interpreted by Frans Brüggen , Gustav Leonhardt and Anner Bijlsma ).
The role of Charlotte was Ingrid Bergman's last major film role. The actress died of breast cancer on August 29, 1982. Liv Ullmann did not make another film until 2003 with the director, Sarabande , which followed on from his television series Scenes from a Marriage (1973).
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron in 1978 based on a dialogue book by Hans Bernd Ebinger. Dietmar Behnke, who also dubbed the role of Paul, was responsible for the dialogue.
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Andergast | Ingrid Bergman | Dagmar Altrichter |
| Eve | Liv Ullmann | Judy Winter |
| Helena | Lena Nyman | Dagmar Biener |
| Pastor Viktor | Halvar Bjork | Herbert Stass |
| Paul, Charlotte's agent | Gunnar Bjornstrand | Dietmar Behnke |
Reviews
"Bergman brings together almost all of the motifs of his previous work in this gloomy, parabolic psychological drama, which is staged with solid craftsmanship and offers space for actor appearances that are well worth seeing, but in its overly schematic design it sometimes seems like a series of self-quotes by the director."
"One of the best films by the Swedish master director, excruciatingly honest as usual, but of that conciliatory quality that characterized his later work."
Awards (selection)
- Best director
- Best Actress (Ingrid Bergman)
- Best foreign language film
- Best Actress (Ingrid Bergman)
- Golden Globe Award 1979
- Bodil 1979
- Best Non-American Film
- David di Donatello 1979
- Best Foreign Actress (Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann)
- Oscar nomination for Best Actress (Ingrid Bergman)
- Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay
- Best director in a foreign film
- Best Actress (Ingrid Bergman)
Adaptation
In December 2014, an adaptation of Jan Bosse premiered at the Stuttgart State Theater . Charlotte was played by Corinna Harfouch , Eva by Fritzi Haberlandt .
Aftermath
In 2003 the Indian director Khalid Mohamed made a remake of Herbstsonata with the title Tehzeeb . The film tells the story of an Indian singer who, years later, meets her two daughters, Tehzeeb and Nazeen. Mohamed dedicated his film to Ingmar Bergman.
Sebastian Fagerlund's opera Höstsonatas premiered at the Finnish National Opera in 2017 . Gunilla Hemming's libretto is based on the script from Ingmar Bergman's film.
literature
- Ingmar Bergman: Höstsonaten , PAN / Norstedt, Stockholm 1978, ISBN 0671510053 .
- German edition: Ingmar Bergman: Herbstsonate. Translated from Swedish by Heiner Gimmler. Heyne, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-453-01242-9 .
- Caroline Eliacheff and Nathalie Heinich: Mothers and Daughters. A triangular relationship. Walter-Patmos, Düsseldorf 2004, pp. 69ff., ISBN 3-530-42175-8 .
- Lawrence J. Quirk : Ingrid Bergman and Her Films. Translated from American English by Marie Margarete Giese. Goldmann, Munich 1982, pp. 166-167, ISBN 3-442-10214-6 .
Web links
- Herbstsonate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Autumn sonata on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation
- Autumn Sonata in the Swedish Film Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 240–246 u. 305-306.
- ↑ Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , p. 288 ff.
- ↑ a b Autumn Sonata in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ^ Autumn sonata at the synchronous database