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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Doris Svedlund | ... | Birgitta Carolina Söderberg | |
| Birger Malmsten | ... | Thomas | |
| Eva Henning | ... | Sofi | |
| Hasse Ekman | ... | Martin Grandé | |
| Stig Olin | ... | Peter | |
| Irma Christenson | ... | Linnea | |
| Anders Henrikson | ... | Paul | |
| Marianne Löfgren | ... | Mrs. Bohlin | |
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Bibi Lindqvist | ... | Anna |
| Curt Masreliez | ... | Alf | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Britta Holmberg | ... | Birgitta's Mother in Dream (voice) | |
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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. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea. Written by Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
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INGMAR BERGMAN reflects on life, love, the Devil and immortality...Genres:
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Composed by Alice Tegner (as Alice Tegnér)
Sung by Monica Uddén
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Hasse Ekman's The Girl from the Third Row (1949) was made as a reaction to the dark view of life in this film, wanting to show that the world after all is not as horrible as it might appear. Ekman starred in both. See more »Crazy Credits
There are no opening titles in this film. An unseen narrator (Hasse Ekman) reads the credits, as well as the title, out loud approximately ten minutes in to the movie. The sole title card is the standard "Slut" (Swedish for "End") that closes the picture. See more »Soundtracks
Vart ska du gå?Composed by Alice Tegner (as Alice Tegnér)
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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 "