Karin Mansdotter (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Karin Mansdotter |
| Original title | Karin Månsdotter |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 108 minutes |
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| Director | Alf Sjöberg |
| script | Alf Sjöberg after Erik XIV. (1899) by August Strindberg |
| production | Rune forest wreath for AB Sandrew production, Stockholm |
| music | Lille Bror Sönderlundh |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Eric Nordemar |
| occupation | |
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Karin Mansdotter is a Swedish historical drama from 1954 by Alf Sjöberg with Ulla Jacobsson in the title role .
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King Erik of Sweden falls in love with Karin Mansdotter, the daughter of a common soldier. Göran Persson, the monarch's advisor, supports this relationship. He hopes to influence the king with the "woman from the people". Because he wants to break the power of the nobility at court and in the country and thus strengthen the rights of the common people. Karin gives birth to two children in the relationship with her king, but Erik cannot bring himself to marry his great love. Instead, he chooses the English Princess Elizabeth Tudor as his future wife. But this plan does not work, and so Karin, to the delight of Göran, finally becomes Queen of Sweden after all. Persson has achieved an important victory and has several nobles murdered. According to his will, the king should accuse them of high treason. Erik has to go before parliament and explain his harsh decision to have the men executed afterwards.
The execution, for which Perssons is responsible and approved by the king, has now finally raised the central forces of the high nobility against Erik and his whisperer. In front of Parliament, the king, who has forgotten his speech manuscript, confuses all the facts. This leads to the aristocratic defendants being acquitted. Erik then publicly apologizes for the unjustified killings. When the king began to show signs of depression and eventually mental illness, a conspiracy brewed among the courtiers. There is a coup of the nobility and Erik is deposed. His brother Johan seizes power and has Persson arrested and executed as Erik's closest confidante. The royal family is imprisoned. Imprisoned for many years, Erik, who has now become mad, has to die on Johan's command. Karin's life is spared, the ex-queen is banished to a castle in Finland. From now on, the queen widow wants to devote herself entirely to raising her and Erik's daughter.
Production notes
Karin Mansdotter was shot from April 7th to July 24th, 1954 and opened in Swedish cinemas on November 1st, 1954. In 1960 the historical drama started in Germany. On March 26, 1966, the film was first broadcast on German television ( ARD ).
Reviews
"Alf Sjöberg does not have the ability, and this deficiency, combined with Ulla Jacobsson's weak attempt to capture the title role, brings the film to the brink of disaster."
"Karin Månsdotter is an excellent example of studying Sjöberg's shortcomings and virtues as a film director."
“Sjöberg originally wanted to make a film of Strindberg's drama, but did not get the rights and started the film based on its own script, which“ snuck past ”Stringberg. (...) The resulting mix of different styles has a peculiar charm. The prologue tells Karin's youth up to the meeting with Erik in color and in the style of an ancient ballad. The (black and white) middle section is a film mix of intrigue and psychological drama. The end, after Erik's fall, follows the strict rules of the literary model. So the style has a direct relationship to the character of the portrayed. "
"In three parts - the middle one follows a one-act play by Strindberg - a historical film staged with brilliant visual art and guided tour."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karin Mansdotter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 16, 2015 .