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Ingmar Bergman (writer)
Release Date:
4 July 1962 (USA)
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Ingmar Bergman reflects on life, love, the Devil and immortality...
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A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell...
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The first Bergman to disappoint
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Doris Svedlund | ... | Birgitta Carolina Soederberg |
| Birger Malmsten | ... | Thomas |
| Eva Henning | ... | Sofi |
| Hasse Ekman | ... | Martin Grande |
| Stig Olin | ... | Peter |
| Irma Christenson | ... | Linnea |
| Anders Henrikson | ... | Paul |
| Marianne Löfgren | ... | Mrs. Bohlin |
| Bibi Lindqvist | ... | Anna |
| Curt Masreliez | ... | Alf |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Britta Holmberg | ... | Birgitta's Mother in Dream (voice) |
| John W. Björling | ... | Man in Birgitta's Dream (uncredited) |
| Sven Björling | ... | Filmworker at Film Studio (uncredited) |
| Anita Blom | ... | Anna (uncredited) |
| Britta Brunius | ... | Lasse's mother (uncredited) |
| Åke Engfeldt | ... | Police officer (uncredited) |
| Gösta Ericsson | ... | Police officer (uncredited) |
| Kenne Fant | ... | Arne (uncredited) |
| Åke Fridell | ... | Man at the boarding-house (uncredited) |
| Inger Juel | ... | Greta (uncredited) |
| Harry Karlsson | ... | Filmworker at Film Studio (uncredited) |
| Gunilla Klosterborg | ... | Dark Lady (uncredited) |
| Torsten Lilliecrona | ... | Film photographer (uncredited) |
| Inga Lindeström | ... | Make-up Artist at Film Studio (uncredited) |
| Segol Mann | ... | Lights operator (uncredited) |
| Börje Mellvig | ... | Police officer (uncredited) |
| Ulf Palme | ... | Man in Birgitta's dream (uncredited) |
| Chris Poijes | ... | Script Supervisor at Film Studio (uncredited) |
| Arne Ragneborn | ... | Anna's fiancé (uncredited) |
| Lasse Sarri | ... | Lasse (uncredited) |
| Karl Öhman | ... | Filmworker at Film Studio (uncredited) |
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| Ingmar Bergman | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Ingmar Bergman | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Lorens Marmstedt | .... | producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Erland von Koch | |||
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| Göran Strindberg | |||
Film Editing by | |||
| Lennart Wallén | |||
Production Design by | |||
| P.A. Lundgren | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Inga Lindeström | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Allan Ekelund | .... | production manager | |
| Gösta Petersson | .... | unit manager | |
Art Department | |||
| Sven Björling | .... | property master | |
Sound Department | |||
| Olle Jacobsson | .... | sound | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| K.J. Jocke Fredriksson | .... | grip | |
| Gunnar Jónsson | .... | grip | |
| Harry Karlsson | .... | gaffer | |
| Bengt Westfelt | .... | assistant camera | |
| Karl Öhman | .... | gaffer | |
Other crew | |||
| Chris Poijes | .... | script supervisor | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Embassy Pictures Corporation (1962) (USA) (subtitled)
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98 min | UK:80 min
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This is the first Bergman film where Death makes a personal appearance. In a pastiche of silent-film slapstick, played by an Italian acrobat troupe, Death suddenly jumps in.See more »
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Featured in The Bergman Trilogy (2004) (TV)See more »
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An ex Maths teacher announces he's just been released from a lunatic asylum (as you do) to some people making a film. (He used to teach one of them). He says that he has ideas about the Devil. The filmmakers try to adapt those ideas into a screenplay. Apparently they reject those ideas -after making them - for this film presumably.
The meandering narrative seems to explore scenarios that surround some pretty miserable and uninteresting people. I think I read that it's Bergman's first film to look solely at mild horror and the place of the Devil, both in philosophy, film and in folklore. Suicide, alcoholism, prostitution, even drowning babies born to the under-aged get limp, clumsy and unconvincing treatment.
It's pretty impossible to follow and no doubt spoilt by knowing what gems came later from the Master of Darkness.
Best thing to come out of it was a line that I've slightly altered - "Life Itself is a terminal illness "