Sleeper compartment
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sleeper compartment |
| Original title | Älskarinnan |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vilgot Sjoman |
| script | Vilgot Sjoman |
| production |
Lars-Owe Carlberg Allan Ekelund |
| music | Eric Ost |
| camera | Leave Bjorn |
| cut | Lennart Wallén |
| occupation | |
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Schlafwagenabteil is a Swedish feature film from 1962 with Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow in the leading roles. The director was the debutant Vilgot Sjöman .
action
All the protagonists of this chamber play, which is largely played in one go, are nameless. A young girl who is friends with a young man, a student, falls in love with an older man who is married. She wants to escape her own petty-bourgeois narrowness, so she gets involved in the affair with this man and becomes his lover. But it goes from bad to worse. Here, too, conventions determine the daily routine: The young woman has to wait constantly, indulge in secrecy, and then finally only finds fleeting moments of happiness in this affair. The girl decides to take a radical cut and plans to go abroad for six months in order to calmly consider how things can go on with her life and her loved ones. The student takes her to the train station.
On the train, however, a surprise awaits the young woman. Her lover, the married elderly gentleman, has ordered a sleeping car compartment for both of them and wants to enjoy being with her there for the entire journey to the Swedish border. It would be a novelty, because so far the rendezvous have always been short-term. This time, however, the young woman and the husband could be together for a whole night. But the night in the sleeping car compartment brings a completely different insight for the girl: She sees that neither the one nor the other man is the right one for her, and that she only loses her self-determination through both. And so with this affair she ends at the same time the foreign domination of men over her life.
Production notes
The sleeping car compartment celebrated its premiere on October 8, 1962. The German premiere was on July 4, 1963.
Per Axel Lundgren created the film structures, the costumes are from Mago .
Reviews
“This film, however, marks a deliberate contrast to Bergman. Sjöman filmed his "women's story" soberly, realistically and almost coolly at a distance as a protocol of oppression and awareness. "
In the Lexicon of International Film it says: "Subtle and stylishly staged psychological study directed by the former writer and Bergman assistant Sjöman."
"Sjöman's first directorial work ... reveals clear Bergman influences in her portrayal of a girl who wavers in her feelings for a younger and an older man."
Awards
Sleeper compartment took part in the 1963 Berlinale as a Swedish contribution . Bibi Andersson was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Director Sjöman was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sleeper compartment. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2018 .
Web links
- Sleeping compartment in the Internet Movie Database (English)