Lesson in love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lesson in love |
| Original title | En lesson i kärlek |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Allan Ekelund |
| music | Dag Wirén |
| camera | Martin Bodin |
| cut | Oscar Rosander |
| occupation | |
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Lesson in love (Original title: En lektion i kärlek ) is a Swedish comedy film directed in black and white by Ingmar Bergman from 1954 .
action
The gynecologist David Ernemann embarks on an affair with him vigorously courting patient after nearly 16 years of marriage. Although he ends the affair after a few months, his wife Marianne reciprocates by hooking up with her former fiancé Carl-Adam, whom David once spun off. David meets with his teenage daughter Nix, who knows about the affairs of both parents; She is so outraged by the mendacious world of adults and the behavior of women, which is always geared towards men, that she even thinks out loud about gender reassignment . David learns that Marianne is on her way to Copenhagen to see Carl-Adam. He gets on the same train as his wife and tries to change her mind, but she rejects his wooing. In a series of flashbacks , the couple remembers their past together, from the tangible turbulence at Marianne and Carl-Adam's broken wedding party to a heartfelt declaration of love between Marianne and David shortly before his affair. After an exuberant party in a pub in Copenhagen, including a wild jealousy scene, the two finally reconciled.
background
Production and film launch
Lesson in Love was made between July and September 1954 at Råsunda Film Studios in Filmstaden , Solna , in various locations in Sweden and in Copenhagen, Denmark . The film, which was successful with both critics and audiences, celebrated its Swedish premiere on October 4 of the same year and opened in German cinemas on January 25, 1963 .
Position in Bergman's work
After the circus drama Abend der Jaukler (1953), which was controversial among critics and rejected by viewers , Ingmar Bergman returned to the production company Svensk Filmindustri . Until the mid-1950s he made a number of "lighter" films, for which he brought together the Eva Dahlbeck / Gunnar Björnstrand team from the "Fahrstuhle episode" of the commercially successful Sehnsucht der Frauen (1952). The first film in the series was Lesson in Love , followed by Woman's Dreams and A Summer Night's Smile (both 1955). Bergman attributed the success of these films (with the exception of Women’s Dreams ) in particular to his two main actors.
Reviews
"The admirable thing about Lesson in Love is how Bergman managed to bring all the diverse elements in his comedy, his questions, mockery and ironies, into a homogeneous cinematic form."
“Until the ironic happy ending , many theses about the wrong use of eroticism and emancipation are offered , often in dialogues of Wilde format. [...] Burlesque interludes, which some may still appreciate, now and then followed by tangible slapstick. Thanks to Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand you can get through it. "
“An early married film by Ingmar Bergman, which summarizes his basic skepticism in the form of a comedy. Despite the sharp, at times disrespectful tone of voice, the film is carried by a philanthropic, winking irony. "
Web links
- Lesson in Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lesson in Love in the Swedish Film Database of the Swedish Film Institute , accessed September 24, 2012.
- ↑ Lesson in Love on the Ingmar Bergman Foundation website , accessed July 9, 2012.
- ↑ a b Lesson in Love 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. 300-302.
- ↑ Quoted on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on September 24, 2012.
- ^ Lesson in Love in Time, No. 6, February 8, 1963, accessed September 25, 2012.