Syskonbädd 1782 (sibling bed)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Syskonbädd 1782 (sibling bed) |
| Original title | 1782 |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vilgot Sjoman |
| script | Vilgot Sjoman |
| production | Göran Lindgren |
| music | Ulf Björlin |
| camera | Leave Bjorn |
| cut |
Wic Kjellin Lennart Wallén |
| occupation | |
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Syskonbädd 1782 (Geschwisterbett) is a Swedish black and white film by Vilgot Sjöman from 1966. The director also wrote the screenplay. It is based on the play "Tis Pity She's a Whore" by the British playwright John Ford . This describes an incest in Parma in the 16th century. Sjöman moved the story to Sweden and chose the 18th century as the time. The leading roles are cast with Bibi Andersson , Per Oscarsson and Jarl Kulle . In Sweden the film first came out on February 28, 1966; in Germany it had its premiere on August 12, 1966.
action
Charlotte, a young baroness, loves her brother Jacob, who has returned to Sweden from Paris after four and a half years, and welcomes a child from him. Desperate, she renews the already broken engagement with a noble courtier, Baron Karl Ulrik Alsmeden, whom she deliberately challenges to seduction. Ashamed of his love, she confesses her pregnancy to him immediately afterwards. The baron also finds the willingness to marry her anyway and to recognize the child as his own child, but in the long run he is not up to this self-denial. It slowly dawns on him that the father of the child is not a complete stranger, but the brother-in-law he is patronizing, but who is sinking into a ruined existence. The relationship between the married couple is getting cooler. In the meantime, the husband is even telling himself that his nobility was just a disguised thirst for power and a lust for power.
Shortly before the birth of her child, Charlotte is shot by Ebba, her brother's jealous childhood friend. The murder appears to the outside world like an accident caused by careless handling of a loaded pistol. An old maid who knows the secret cuts the living child out of the dead body, which with its dark eyes bears an unmistakable resemblance to Charlotte's brother Jacob, and hands it over to the husband. This is in line with the facts.
criticism
“The story of a forbidden love between brother and sister, set in Sweden from 1782. Sjöman's third feature film uses historical decorations and the elevated tone of a literary text as a vehicle for excursions critical of morality and society. "
“Sjöman's film is [...] much more subtle than expected, but the director did not succeed in elevating the out-of-the-way subject above purely artistic values and justifying the treatment of the material despite the strongly symbolically underlined atmosphere of disaster. Therefore only with reservations. "
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency gave the strip the rating “valuable”.
Web links
- Syskonbädd 1782 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 316/1966, pp. 594 to 596
- ↑ Syskonbädd 1782. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .