Kris (1946)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Writers:

Ingmar Bergman (writer)
Leck Fischer (play)

Release Date:

25 February 1946 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Plot Keywords:

Small Town | Foster Daughter | Piano | Lover | Foster Mother

Cast

Inga Landgré	...	Nelly
Stig Olin	...	Jack
Marianne Löfgren	...	Jenny
Dagny Lind	...	Ingeborg
Allan Bohlin	...	Ulf
Ernst Eklund	...	Uncle Edvard
Signe Wirff	...	Aunt Jessie

Also Known As:

Crisis (UK) (USA)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | UK:12 (video rating) (2004) | UK:A (original rating) (cut)

Filming Locations:

Hedemora, Dalarnas län, Sweden

Company:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Trivia:

First film directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Ingmar Bergman: Om liv och arbete (1998) (TV)

Lousy first film

Well, they don't all start out as geniuses. Ingmar Bergman's first film is very weak. It's an adaptation of a play about an 18 year old girl, Nelly (Inga Landgré), who leaves her adopted mother to live with her real mother in the city. The story itself isn't too bad, but the situation is so black and white. Nelly's mother is depicted as utterly wicked, and the adoptive mother as a saint. Every aspect of the city corrupts you; it is the country where you belong! It really is a boring little film and not even really worth seeing. Landgré gives a good performance, and there are a couple of other decent actors, but that's about it.