Like in a mirror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Like in a mirror |
| Original title | Såsom i en level |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Allan Ekelund |
| music | Erik Nordgren |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Ulla Ryghe |
| occupation | |
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| synchronization | |
Through a Glass Darkly (Original: såsom i en spegel ) is in black and white twisted Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman in the year 1961 with Harriet Andersson , Gunnar Bjorn beach and Max von Sydow in the lead roles.
The film portrays 24 hours from the life of a young woman who is incurably mentally ill.
action
The action takes place over two consecutive evenings on an island in the Baltic Sea . Karin, her husband Martin, a doctor by profession, her father David, a writer who has just returned from Switzerland , and her 17-year-old brother Peter (minus in the Swedish original) spend the summer holidays here. Karin was recently released from a psychiatric clinic . In private, Martin reports to his father-in-law that Karin is terminally ill. Peter wants to be a writer like his father and is grappling with puberty problems.
David makes no headway in the work on his novel and catches himself at the thought of using his daughter's medical history in literary terms. Karin finds out about this when she reads David's diary. Martin confronts David with her discovery on a boat trip and accuses him of being cold. But David also suffers from psychological problems. He feels as a writer at the end of his creative career and had tried to commit suicide in Switzerland.
Karin continues to be plagued by her illness. She has visions and believes that God is visiting her. During a trip to the beach, she seduces her brother. Back in the house, she locks herself in a room where she has a seizure. Martin calls the emergency service and gives her a sedative injection. Karin later tells that God appeared to her as a malicious spider. A helicopter picks up Karin and Martin to take them to the clinic, David and Peter stay alone on the island. During a conversation, the two get closer for the first time.
background
production
Bergman completed work on the script on May 12, 1960. At an early stage he had considered “wallpaper” as a title. This wallpaper adorns the room in which Karin experiences her last breakdown (or her last vision) in the film: “The borderline that she has to cross are the strange patterns of the wallpaper.” (Bergman) The final title is the first Paul's letter based on the Corinthians ( 1 Cor 13.12 EU ): “We now see a dark image through a mirror; but then face to face. Now I know piece by piece; but then I will recognize how I am recognized. ”The director used the quote again as the title for Face to Face (1976).
The film was originally supposed to be shot on the Orkney Islands. Bergman then decided on the island of Fårö , which would later become his home.
The scene in which Karin and Peter / Minus descend into the belly of a shipwreck is strongly reminiscent of a similar scene in Agnès Varda's La Pointe Courte (1955). Whether Bergman knew the film or was influenced by it has not been established.
Film start
The world premiere took place on October 16, 1961 in Sweden. The film took part in the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1962 and opened in German cinemas on June 26, 1962 . The German synchronization changed the name of the son Fredrik or Minus to Peter.
Position in Bergman's work
Like in a mirror forms the first film in a trilogy (followed by Light in Winter and The Silence ). In 1969, Bergman stated in an interview that he had not originally planned the trilogy as such. Only after finishing the third film did he notice the uniformity of all three parts.
At the same time, it marked the beginning of Bergman's longstanding collaboration with cameraman Sven Nykvist . Nykvist had previously shot Abend der Jaukler (1953) and Die Jungfrauenquelle (1960) with Bergman and photographed all of the director's films up to 1983.
Although the majority of contemporary film critics received Wie in a Spiegel positively, Bergman expressed himself disparagingly about his film in later years. In addition to his dissatisfaction with Björnstrand and Passgård's portrayal, he was disturbed by the film's "urge for security", the "attempt to come up with a solution" instead of "just coming up with the question itself", which he called "lying" and "wanted" designated.
Reviews
“Seeker Bergman suspects that love is proof of God. He hides this view in a fable that is as simple as it is profound [...] and orchestrates the quartet of his characters with transparent simplicity. The actress Harriet Andersson proves to be his most outstanding instrument, who not only plays the schizophrenic but also modulates it in an exciting way. "
“This is one of the few Bergman films that draw hope from faith. On the other hand, he describes how all persons involved in the action change by seeing part of their self in the mirror image of the other. This is demonstrated in cool, clear imagery that focuses entirely on the essentials. "
“'As in a mirror' impresses with its formal view of the topic, the brittleness of the chosen ambience and the inevitable concentration on the few protagonists [...] However, despite the relevance of the topic, the deficit in plausibility of the book cannot be overlooked; z. B. The downright rushed verbal dissolution of the action in theological statements at the end does not make sense . The link between the psychopathic constellation and the explicit question of God is not finally convincing either [...] Nevertheless, a film remains that, through its artistic and religious ambition, stands out from other attempts at film on the question of meaning - including Bergmans himself. "
Awards
- Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 1962
- Prize of the organization catholique internationale pour le cinéma et l'audiovisuel (OCIC) at the 1962 Berlin International Film Festival
- Honored as one of the "Top Five Foreign Language Films" by the National Board of Review in 1962
literature
- Ingmar Bergman: Filmerzzählungen , Hinstorff, Rostock 1977; Wild strawberries and other film stories , Heyne, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-01139-2
Web links
- As in a mirror in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Like in a mirror in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 157-163.
- ↑ Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 220-226.
- ↑ a b As in a Spiegel (Sweden) in Der Spiegel No. 32/1962 of August 8, 1962, accessed on July 28, 2012.
- ↑ Like a mirror in the Internet Movie Database .
- ^ Like in a mirror in the lexicon of international film .
- ↑ a b Stig Björkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima: Bergman on Bergman, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-596-24478-1 , pp. 180-193.
- ^ As in a mirror on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on July 29, 2012.
- ↑ Reclams Filmführer, 2nd edition 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 .
- ^ Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM), United Soft Media 2002.
Remarks
- ↑ “Five Best Foreign Language Films”, not identical to the award for the best foreign language film .