De Düva: The Dove (1968)

This short film is a parody of some of Ingmar Bergman's best known films, including Wild Strawberries (Smultronstaellet) and The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet). The dialog, seemingly in... See full summary »

Directors:

George Coe, Anthony Lover

Writer:

Sidney Davis

Stars:

Pamela Burrell, George Coe, Sidney Davis

Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Pamela Burrell	...	Inga
George Coe	...	Viktor
Sidney Davis	...	Death (as Sid Davis)
Madeline Kahn	...	Sigfrid
Stan Rubinstein	...	Olin
Tom Stone	...	Gustav
Peter Turgeon	...	Uncle Anders
David Zirlin	...	Chauffeur

Storyline

This short film is a parody of some of Ingmar Bergman's best known films, including Wild Strawberries (Smultronstaellet) and The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet). The dialog, seemingly in Swedish, is actually a Swedish-accented fictional language based on English, German, Latin, and Swedish, with most nouns ending in "ska". The principal character, Professor Viktor Sundqvist, 76, is being driven to a lecture at the university, when dove droppings splatter the car's windshield. Detouring at his uncle's old house, his mind wanders back to his youth, when Death came to a family picnic to claim his sister, Inga. Knowing that Death is a gambler, Viktor has Inga challenge Death to a single-point game of badminton for her life. While they are playing, a dove flies above, soiling Death's cape, and distracting him enough to miss the birdie. Having won the game, Inga is free, and she and Viktor run off for a swim in the lake.

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Plot Keywords:

1960s | bird droppings | pigeon | columbidae | columbiformes | 

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Genres:

Short | Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

October 1968 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Dove

Company Credits

Production Co:

Audio 300, Coe-Davis Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

15 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Film debut of Madeline Kahn.

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Quotes

Sigfrid: [proffering cigar to Inga, in parody Swedish] Phalliken symbolsk?

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Connections

Spoofs Wild Strawberries (1957)

User Reviews

Unsuspecting Victims

I worked with a man who was quite serious. After a weekend, I asked what he'd done, and he'd gone to the same movie I had. Along with the main feature, De Duva was shown.

I asked him how he liked it. He said, "It was O.K., but the audience was so disrespectful." He and his wife had sat through the whole film, not realizing it was a parody in, as one of the other people put it, macaroni English. He had taken the whole thing straight, and hadn't caught on it was a parody.

When I had seen it, I was interested at first because I am a first, second, and third generation Swedish American, and while I don't speak Swedish, I do understand a word or phrase here or there in Swedish films. I sat there, for a couple of minutes, trying to reconcile the English subtitles to words in some Swedish dialect that wasn't making sense to me, until I realized it was not Swedish at all.