Princess (1966)

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Movie
German title princess
Original title Princess
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1966
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Åke Falck
script Lars Widding ,
Åke Falck
production AB Europa Film Stockholm
music Harry Arnold
camera Mac Ahlberg ,
Ralph M. Evers
occupation

Princess (Original title: Prinsessan ) is a Swedish film drama in black and white from 1966 by Åke Falck , who - together with Lars Widding - wrote the screenplay. It is based on a factual report by Gunnar Mattsson . The main roles are Grynet Molvig , Lars Passgård and Monica Nielsen . The work had its world premiere on December 23, 1966 in Sweden. It premiered in the Federal Republic of Germany on August 25, 1967.

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The young nurse Seija suffers from the very rare disease lymphogranulamatosis, a nodule in the lymphatic system associated with unbearable itching , which almost always leads to death. All the doctors she consults give her a life expectancy of just a few months. Seija vacillates between hunger for life and suicidal intentions. The also young journalist Gunnar Mattsson only found out about it after he fell in love with Seija, because the girl fully corresponds to his ideal. Now he has to be clear about whether it is not just loving compassion that binds him to her, something that Seija would be particularly sensitive to. But in the end the two marry despite all concerns. Against all hope and reason, Seija even welcomes a child, whom she does not want to do without and for which reason she refrains from any radiation treatment during pregnancy. When the boy - contrary to the medical prophecy - was born healthy after a difficult birth, all of Seija's symptoms of illness suddenly disappeared in a medically inexplicable way. At the end of the film it says, “We can learn that there is nothing final. If we believe that we have come to an end, we may be facing a new beginning. "

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The story told in the film actually happened, but not in Sweden, but in Finland. In the real case it was not the rare lymphogranulamatosis, but another, very common, incurable disease.

Reviews

The Protestant film observer is full of praise: “The now well-known factual report by Gunnar Mattsson was surprisingly well designed, the positive realism of which can be advocated from the age of 16. Worth seeing! ”The lexicon of international film judges less benevolently :“ Retelling of an authentic story from Finland, which is exhausted in outward appearances in the manner of a magazine. ”The state film evaluation agency Wiesbaden gave the work the title“ valuable ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 344/1967, pp. 443–444.
  2. ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 2992.