Music in the dark
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Music in the dark |
| Original title | Music i mörker |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script |
Dagmar Edqvist Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Lorens Marmstedt |
| music | Erland by Koch |
| camera | Göran Strindberg |
| cut | Lennart Wallén |
| occupation | |
| |
Music in the dark (original title: Music i mörker ) is in black and white twisted Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman from the year 1948 .
action
The young recruit Bengt is injured during a military exercise and is henceforth blind. He moved in with his middle-class aunt Beatrice, where he received music lessons. A tender love story is developing between Bengt and the simple housemaid Ingrid, which initially fails because of the differences in class. After his application to a music school was rejected, Bengt wanted to stand on his own two feet and took a position as a pianist in a pub. After he was only exploited there, he switched to a school for the blind as a piano tuner. He defiantly rejects the offer to train as a church musician.
One evening Bengt meets Ingrid again, who has started further training and wants to become a teacher. Ingrid now has a friend, the young worker Ebbe, who goes to the same school as Ingrid and keeps mocking Bengt. During a dance evening Ingrid decides for Bengt, who is then knocked down by the ebb. Bengt thanks him for treating him as a full human being for the first time.
Despite the opposition in their environment, Bengt and Ingrid marry. He takes a job as a church organist, Ingrid continues to pursue her plan to graduate and become a teacher in order to be able to teach people who come from the same simple background as herself.
background
Production and film launch
After three films that received little attention from the audience, Bergman received an offer from the independent producer Lorens Marmstedt for another directorial work on the condition that he accepted a given material, the novel Musik i mörker by Dagmar Edqvist . Bergman agreed and wrote the script together with the writer. The shooting took place in November and December 1947 at Sandrew Studios in Stockholm . Bergman had set out to direct the film to the public; a bill that also paid off.
On January 17, 1948, Music in the Dark was premiered in Sweden and was shown in the autumn of the same year as a competition entry at the Venice International Film Festival . In the FRG , music in the dark was not shown in cinemas, but on television for the first time on January 28, 1978 .
Position in Bergman's work
As in almost all of his films between It rains on our love (1946) and prison (1949), Bergman also portrayed a young couple here who defend themselves against "the hostile grasp of the environment". ( Gregor / Patalas ) In addition to regular Bergman actors from this time such as Birger Malmsten and Bengt Eklund , his future regular actor Gunnar Björnstrand can also be seen in a small role. In later years the director dismissed this commissioned work as a "small, leisurely film".
Reviews
"An early, more conventional Bergman melodrama that still suffers from stylistic eclecticism and crude symbolism."
literature
- Music i mörker . Albert Bonniers, Stockholm 1947, 446 pages. German Music in the Dark , Orell Füssli, Zurich 1947, 357 pages.
Web links
- Music in the dark in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 125–128.
- ↑ Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 57-59 u. 270-271.
- ↑ Music in the Dark on the Ingmar Bergman Foundation website , accessed on March 25, 2012.
- ^ List of the films in competition at the Venice Film Festival from 1948 in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b Music in the Dark in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Quoted from Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , p. 32.
- ^ Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman on Bergman, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , p. 44.