Ship to Indialand
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ship to Indialand |
| Original title | Skepp till Indialand |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1947 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Lorens Marmstedt |
| music | Erland by Koch |
| camera | Göran Strindberg |
| cut | Days Holmberg |
| occupation | |
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Ship to India land (original title Skepp till India land ) is in black and white twisted Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman in the year 1947 .
action
Naval officer Johannes Blom is visiting his home country for the first time in seven years. He meets Sally again, who lives in poor conditions, the first woman in his life, but who vehemently rejects him with the words that she does not need his pity. In a flashback, Johannes remembers the events of that time: Johannes' father, the tyrannical captain Alexander Blom, lives with his wife Alice and his son on a small salvage ship. The father despises John for his humpback and alleged weakness. Both dream of exploring foreign countries on a ship that they only know from pictures and books.
When Blom learns that he will go blind in the near future, he brings the variety singer Sally on board and announces that he will be leaving soon. Sally and Johannes begin a timid relationship, and Johannes has the courage for the first time to fight back against his father in a physical argument. While repairing a ship, Blom tries to kill his son. When the attempt fails, he attempts suicide, but it fails; he will be paralyzed in the last years of his life. Johannes goes, as planned for a long time, to the Navy, but announces that he will come back if he can enable himself and Sally a materially secure life. Back in the present, Johannes can finally change Sally's mind to give her love a chance and come with him on his ship.
background
Production and film launch
Bergman wrote the script based on the 1946 play Skepp till Indialand by author Martin Söderhjelm . After It rains on our love , this was Bergman's second work for independent producer Lorens Marmstedt . The casting of the role of Sally with Gertrud Fridh , who had already worked at the Stadttheater in Gothenburg under Bergman's direction, was enforced by Bergman against the will of Marmstedt.
Schiff nach Indialand was created between May 28 and July 16, 1947, ran in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival and celebrated its Swedish premiere on September 22, 1947. The film did not start in theaters in Germany, but ran for the first time on German television on August 21, 1965.
Position in Bergman's work
In contrast to Bergman's other films of this time, in which he showed young couples defending themselves against “the hostile grasp of the environment” ( Gregor / Patalas ), he focused here on a father-son conflict. Tense father-son relationships were also a topic in Wie in einer Spiegel (1961), Fanny and Alexander (1982) and in Bergman's last film Sarabande (2003).
criticism
“Ingmar Bergman's fourth feature film has strong melodramatic traits, is clearly influenced by models ( Carne's poetic realism , German expressionism ) and reveals the director's interest in extreme borderline situations and model constructs. Bergman's early work is characterized by the committed escalation of the generation conflict. "
Web links
- Ship to India Country in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ship to Indialand on the Berlinale website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ship to Indialand on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on September 6, 2012.
- ↑ Gertrud Fridh on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, accessed on September 7, 2012.
- ^ Ship to Indialand in the archives of the Cannes International Film Festival, accessed on September 6, 2012.
- ↑ Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , p. 343.
- ↑ a b Ship to Indialand 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.