Shame (1968)

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Movie
German title shame
Original title Skamming
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1968
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ingmar Bergman
script Ingmar Bergman
production Lars-Owe Carlsberg
music Johann Sebastian Bach , Ingmar Bergman
camera Sven Nykvist
cut Ulla Ryghe
occupation
synchronization

German synchronous file # 5723

chronology

←  Predecessor
The Hour of the Wolf

Successor  →
Passion

Schande (Original title: Skammen ) is a black and white shot Swedish drama by Ingmar Bergman from 1968 and the second part of Bergman's so-called Fårö trilogy.

action

The musician couple Eva and Jan Rosenberg live secluded on an island off the mainland. When a war raging in the country spreads to the island, they try to flee. They first fall into the hands of an unnamed "enemy" who, however, releases them again, whereupon their own authorities suspect them of being collaborators . Colonel Jacobi, with whom they had previously been in a friendly and neighborly relationship, obtained their release. From then on he uses his power and drives Eva into an affair with him, for which he pays her. Eva, whose relationship with Jan is anything but harmonious - she despises him for his softness - lets this happen to her. Jacobi makes no secret of his liaison with Eva from Jan.

When Colonel Jacobi himself is suspected of corruption and his affair with Eva becomes known, his own followers seize him. You offer Jacobi to buy himself out with the money that he previously gave Eva. But Jan had found the money before and now denies knowing where it is. He watches as his house is destroyed and executes Jacobi with a pistol. Then he tells Eva that he had the money with him the whole time. From now on he becomes violent and murdered against Eva, robbing a young deserted soldier who has sought refuge in her greenhouse. Eva feels increasingly repulsed by her husband, but stays with him.

At the end of the film, the two of them and other residents flee the war on a boat. In the middle of the sea the supplies run out, the bodies of dead soldiers drift around the boat.

background

Shame is the second part of the so-called Fårö trilogy, started with The Hour of the Wolf (1968) and followed by Passion (1969). The film was shot between September and November 1967 on the Swedish island of Fårö , where Bergman lived for several years.

Schande opened in Swedish cinemas on September 29, 1968 and in German cinemas on February 21, 1969 .

The film is not based on a historically located war, nor are the warring parties assigned to any nation. It confines itself to pointing out that the conflict between the state of which the Rosenbergs are members and another state or another faction within the same state is being carried out.

In the film, the saraband from the Partita No. 3 in A minor by Johann Sebastian Bach can be heard. This composition is also alluded to in The Hour of the Wolf and Passion , for Renaud an indication that all three films can be viewed as a trilogy that belongs together.

reception

Shame was accused of the lack of a clear political position at the time of publication, particularly sharp by the Swedish writer Sara Lidman , and of reducing the subject of war to a microcosm.

In its review, the Lexicon of International Films focuses on the private conflict shown: "Using an allegorically condensed model situation, Ingmar Bergman attacks the fragile facade of bourgeois conventions and at the same time - through surrealistic visual visions - the viewer's understanding of reality."

The Protestant film observer draws the following conclusion: “A film about fear and its consequences. With relentless severity and without leaving any way out, Ingmar Bergman demonstrates the frailty of human dignity in situations of danger and abandonment. Possible from 16 years of age, worth seeing and highly contemplated for adults! "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgitta Steene: Ingmar Bergman. A Reference Guide . Amsterdam 2005, p. 283 .
  2. ^ A b Catholic Institute for Media Information eV and Catholic Film Commission Germany (ed.): Lexicon of International Films. The complete range in cinema and television since 1945. 21,000 short reviews and filmographies. Volume 7. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  3. ↑ In Ingmar Bergman's original screenplay, a civil war is briefly mentioned in a dialogue. Cf. Ingmar Bergman: Filmerzählungen, Hirstorff, Rostock 1977, p. 252.
  4. ↑ Charlotte Renaud: An unrequited love of music , article on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on July 11, 2012.
  5. ↑ Shame on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on June 28, 2012.
  6. ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 114/1969