Kris (film)

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Movie
Original title Kris
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1946
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Ingmar Bergman
script Ingmar Bergman
production Harald Molander ,
Victor Sjöström
music Erland by Koch
camera Gosta Roosling
cut Oscar Rosander
occupation

Kris (Eng. "Crisis") is a Swedish drama from 1946 shot in black and white . Kris was based on the play Moderhjierter by Leck Fischer and is the film debut of the director Ingmar Bergman .

action

Nelly grows up in modest but carefree circumstances with her foster mother Ingeborg in a small Swedish town. When she turned eighteen, her birth mother, Jenny, appeared in town, offering her a better life in the big city, as she was now financially secure with her lucrative beauty salon. At an evening ball in town there is a scandal: Jenny's lover, the unsuccessful actor Jack, has followed her, disrupts the event and makes advances to Nelly, which leads to a dispute with Nelly's admirer Ulf. Although Ingeborg, who is terminally ill, wants to keep Nelly with her, the young woman moves to live with her mother in the city. She earns her living as an employee in Jenny's salon.

During a visit to Ingeborg, Jack confesses to her in private that he doesn't love Jenny and can only be endured by her, and that his infatuation with Nelly is just as selfish. Ingeborg travels back, dejected by Nelly's absence and full of self-doubt as to whether her love for her foster daughter is not as selfish as the Jacks. Shortly afterwards, Jack seduces Nelly into Jenny's shop after work. Jenny catches them both red-handed; the subsequent exchange of blows, in which Jenny and Jack express their loneliness and lack of illusions, ends with his suicide . Nelly travels back to her hometown. Ingeborg has decided to defy her illness as long as possible, and between Nelly and Ulf there is a possibility that they will find each other.

background

After the success of Alf Sjöberg's Die Hörige (1944), for which Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay, the film production company Svensk Filmindustri Bergman, who was pushing for the chance to direct his own, offered the film adaptation of the successful play Moderhjetzt (Eng. "Muttertier") ) by the Danish playwright Leck Fischer. Bergman already had theater experience, but as a film director had previously only staged the final scene of Die Hörige .

Kris was shot in July and August 1945 at Råsunda Film Studios in Filmstaden , the field shoots took place in Hedemora and Djurgården , Stockholm . Bergman later described the shooting as a series of technical and personnel difficulties and as his only allies Carl-Anders Dymling and Victor Sjöström from Svensk Filmindustri and his film editor Oscar Rosander .

The film opened in Sweden on February 25, 1946. The reviews were mixed, the audience fell through Kris . Bergman described the piece in retrospect as "public whoring" and his film as "bad in every respect". “There's a scene in it that works, it's the one at the beauty salon. That's about two hundred meters [= approx. 7 minutes]. ”(Bergman) Among the actors, only Stig Olin appeared regularly in Bergman's later films until the early 1950s. Inga Landgré made a few appearances in Frauenträume (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957) and Nahe dem Leben (1958).

Kris was not shown in German cinemas or on television. On November 3, 1978 it was shown as part of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck .

criticism

“There is something unbridled, nervous about Bergman's imagination that leaves a disturbing impression. He falls from one exaggeration to the next and is evidently unable to adopt a rational stance. [...] What Swedish cinema needs are not experimenters, but intelligent, sensible people who confront us with lively people and meaningful statements. "

- Bonnier's literary era Magasin

“We need to get away from the formulaic filmmaking where too many chefs squint at the audience. [...] Kris is without a doubt the furthest, most courageous and decisive step away from the provincialism in which Swedish film has remained for a long time. "

- Dagens Nyheter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hauke ​​Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , p. 45 u. 268.
  2. ↑ a b Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , p. 109 u. 111-115.
  3. ↑ a b Kris on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on September 16, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jerry Vermilye: Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films, McFarland & Company, Jefferson (North Carolina) 2006, ISBN 978-0786429592 , p. 52.
  5. ^ Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman over Bergman, Fischer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , pp. 29-30.
  6. ↑ a b Quoted in the entry on Kris on the Ingmar Bergman Foundation website, accessed on September 16, 2012.