#martin söderhjelm

[byneddiedingo]

A Ship to India (Ingmar Bergman, 1947)

Cast: Holger Löwenadler, Anna Lindahl, Birger Malmsten, Gertrud Fridh, Naemi Briese, Hjördis Patterson, Lasse Krantz, Jan Molander, Erik Hell, Åke Fridell, Douglas Håge. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman, based on a play by Martin Söderhjelm. Cinematography: Göran Strindberg. Production design: P.A. Lundgren. Film editing: Tage Holmberg. Music: Erland von Koch.

[sesiondemadrugada]

Skepp till India land (Ingmar Bergman, 1947).

[neznans]

Skepp till Indialand

I liked this one. Bergman's "A ship bound for India" does better certain things than the other films of his that I saw. Or to be more accurate, I think what this film tries to achieve is more achievable with Bergman's tools than the other films I've seen thus far. This films actually falls -- or rather, becomes unpleasantly annoying -- precisely at those points where it tries to deal with raw emotions the way his latter films (which I saw) do.

I think this film goes better than those others, precisely because it has a solid story/plot at its center, instead of being a representation of the unfolding of the relationship(ic) forces between a cast of characters.