Passion (1969)
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| German title | passion |
| Original title | En passion |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Ingmar Bergman |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Siv Lundgren |
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Passion (Original title: En passion ) is a Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman from 1969 and the final part of Bergman's so-called Fårö trilogy.
action
Andreas Winkelmann lives secluded in his house away from a small Swedish village, only with the old hermit Andersson he occasionally maintains contact. One day he receives a visit from Anna Fromm, who wants to use his phone. She forgets her handbag with him, in it he finds a letter from her husband, whose name is Andreas, and in which he asks Anna for a divorce. He later learns that Anna lost her husband and child in a car accident in which she was behind the wheel. She lives with the married couple Elis and Eva Vergérus. Elis is a successful, but outwardly emotional architect who has made portrait photography his hobby. Eva had an affair with Anna's husband and is now entering into a love affair with Andreas, which does not last long.
The apparent peace of the community is overshadowed by the abuse of animals: sheep are stabbed to death senselessly, a puppy is hanged, which Andreas rescues and takes in. The residents suspect old Andersson and threaten him in anonymous letters.
Later, Anna and Andreas enter into a relationship that is not characterized by deep love, but at least initially by mutual respect and friendship. She moves in with him, but after a few months their relationship breaks up, because Andreas is unable to give up his human isolation, while Anna is constantly lying to herself about her supposedly happy previous marriage. A few days after Andreas learned of Andersson's suicide, he beats Anna in an argument.
Shortly afterwards, a stable is burned down, the suspected Andersson was obviously not the wanted animal molester. Andreas arrives first at the scene of the fire, then Anna. They drive back together in their car. During the journey, Andreas reveals to her that he thinks a breakup is best. Anna, who is at the wheel, drives noticeably faster until an argument breaks out, which leads to Andreas' question as to whether she wants to kill him just as she did her husband before. He escapes from the car and Anna drives on alone. Andreas moves aimlessly in a circle, his silhouette disappears in the glaring daylight. In a voice-over , the narrator explains, " This time his name was Andreas Winkelmann".
background
Passion is the final part of the so-called Fårö trilogy, beginning with The Hour of the Wolf (1968) and Shame (1968). The film was made between September and December 1968 on the Swedish island of Fårö , where Bergman lived for several years. After Ach, these women (1964), this was Bergman's second color film .
The sarabande from Partita No. 3 in A minor by Johann Sebastian Bach can be heard in the film. This composition is also alluded to in The Hour of the Wolf and Shame , for Renaud an indication that all three films can be viewed as a trilogy that belongs together. Another reference is Anna's dream, shown in black and white , in which she finds herself in a war zone and which thematically follows on from the previous film Shame, which was also shot in black and white .
In his work monograph Bilder (1990), Bergman explained the motivation for shooting Passion : “The film shows what I actually wanted to show in shame - violence that is expressed in an illegitimate way. Actually the same story, but more believable. ”Nevertheless, he was dissatisfied with the result, for which he blamed, among other things, the short interruptions in the film in which the four main actors comment on the motivation of the characters they play. Similar distancing stylistic devices, in which the viewer is made aware that they are viewing a feature film, had already been used by Bergman in Persona (1966) and The Hour of the Wolf . Bergman also saw parallels between the character of Johan Andersson in Passion and the suicide Jonas Persson in Licht im Winter (1962): "Both are victims of inaction and the inability to empathize with the main character."
Passion started in Sweden on November 10, 1969. The film was first shown in Germany on October 25, 1970 as part of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck and broadcast on August 14, 1972 on ZDF .
reception
“The dark final piece of Ingmar Bergman's“ Island Trilogy ”, which he illustrated with slaughtered sheep, hanged dogs and dead birds, is also about obsessions, entanglements and fears. Again - as in the "Hour of the Wolf" and "Shame" - the two protagonists [...] demonstrate the failure of a community. "
"Ingmar Bergman's cinematic meditation, which is aesthetically and in terms of color, revolves once again around basic questions of human existence and creates an image of harrowing emotional distress and abandonment."
Awards (selection)
Web links
- Passion in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Passion on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on July 20, 2012.
- ↑ Charlotte Renaud: An unrequited love of music , article on the Ingmar Bergman Foundation website, accessed on July 20, 2012.
- ↑ a b Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 269-274.
- ^ Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , p. 296.
- ↑ a b Passion in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ This week on television in Der Spiegel 34/1972 of August 14, 1972, accessed on July 20, 2012.