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.Read More »
Eva Henning
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Ingmar Bergman – Fängelse AKA Prison (1949) (HD)
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Ingmar Bergman – Fängelse AKA Prison AKA The Devil’s Wanton (1949)
Ingmar Bergman1941-1950DramaSwedenSynopsis:
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.Read More » -
Hasse Ekman – Flicka och hyacinter AKA Girl with Hyacinths (1950)
1941-1950ClassicsHasse EkmanMysterySwedenQuote:
Ekman’s favorite of his own films, and an enduring classic in Scandinavia, “Girl with Hyacinths” examines the mysterious suicide of a young woman (Eva Henning, Ekman’s wife at the time) through a Wellesian multiplicity of points of view. Visually striking, with extreme long takes and images that drift into a dreamlike surrealism, the film reveals its secrets with grace and sympathy, moving toward a final revelation that seems at least a generation ahead of its time.Read More » -
Ingmar Bergman – Törst AKA Thirst (1949)
1941-1950ArthouseDramaIngmar BergmanSweden
A couple traveling across a war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer’s scarred past. Her friend’s psychological agony. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons – her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend. Told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, Ingmar Bergman’s Thirst shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation.Read More »