Manhunt (1950)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Manhunt |
| Original title | Sånt inte här |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1950 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Herbert Grevenius |
| music | Erik Nordgren |
| camera | Gunnar Fischer |
| cut | Lennart Wallén |
| occupation | |
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Manhunt (Original title: Sånt händer inte här ) is in black and white twisted Swedish spy thriller by Ingmar Bergman from the year 1950 .
action
Atkä Natas, a citizen of the fictional communist state Liquidatzia, visits his wife Vera, who lives in the west and is part of the small but lively community of exiles there . Natas plays a double game as an agent of the rulers Liquidatzias and an escape agent. Before he sleeps with his wife, who is only married to him on paper but is of sexual service to him, he ruthlessly reveals to her that he was betraying her parents in order to save his own skin. Natas wants to offer the Americans stolen secret documents in return for political asylum , but before that happens, his wife kills him, supposedly in revenge for betraying her parents. While Vera's friend, the policeman Almkvist, interrogates her, the surviving Natas is picked up and tortured by agents from his home country. He agrees to lead her to Vera, since she is now also a keeper of secrets. The agents kidnap Vera from Almkvist's apartment and drive her and Natas to the port, where a freighter is supposed to bring them back to Liquidatzia. Natas tries to flee alone on the way, but is overtaken by his pursuers and throws himself into death in view of his hopeless situation. At the last second, Almkvist and his police colleagues arrive at the port and free Vera from the hands of their kidnappers.
background
Production and film launch
With the looming Swedish film crisis in mind, the production company Svensk Filmindustri decided to produce an internationally marketable film in good time. The internationally successful Signe Hasso and the promising young actor Alf Kjellin were hired for the leading roles. Herbert Grevenius was commissioned to adapt the spy novel Inom 12 timmar by the Norwegian Peter Valentin (d. I. Waldemar Brøgger) for the screen, Ingmar Bergman was to direct. Bergman, reluctant to accept the project, assumed that the prospect of production freeze would hit him economically. The shooting took place in July and August 1950 at Råsunda Filmstudios, Filmstaden , Solna . The film, shot in two language versions (Swedish and English for the export market), started on October 23, 1950, but was a financial failure.
The film started in Germany on March 10, 1959 .
Position in Bergman's work
Svensk Filmindustri's ambition to get the supposed box office hit into the cinemas as quickly as possible led to the start of Bergman's film, which had already been shot, being postponed for one summer in favor of manhunt. Bergman said in retrospect that he is of Manhunt dissociate and "ashamed" for him. His main objection was not the anti-communist message of the film, but the “recklessness” of the script in view of the real fate of the Baltic exiles with whom Bergman came into contact at the beginning of the shooting. In later years, Svensk Filmindustri tried to obstruct the screening of the film and even had a viewing for a film journalist canceled.
Manhunt gathers a number of Bergman's regulars from those years like cinematographer Gunnar Fischer and composer Erik Nordgren , and Stig Olin makes a brief appearance just before the final chase.
reception
“An anti-communist crime film that wants to warn against being too careless in the neutral camp. From the script, it was partly designed as a cliché crime piece, which only bears the handwriting of the later Bergman in details. "
Web links
- Manhunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manhunt in the Swedish Film Database of the Swedish Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ manhunt on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on 28 September 2012 found.
- ↑ a b Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 252-254.
- ↑ a b Manhunt in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, pp. 76-80 u. P. 277.