A Ship to India
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| Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
| Produced by | Lorens Marmstedt |
| Written by | Ingmar Bergman Martin Söderhjelm (play) |
| Starring | Holger Löwenadler Anna Lindahl Birger Malmsten Gertrud Fridh |
| Music by | Erland von Koch |
| Release date(s) | 22 September 1947 |
| Running time | 98 min |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
A Ship to India (Swedish: Skepp till India land) is a 1947 Swedish film directed and written by Ingmar Bergman. It is one of his earlier and lesser-known works.
The film tells the story of the past of the character Johannes during an ocean voyage to India, along with his cruel father, his mother, and a female traveler with whom Johannes falls in love.
The movie contains sequences of despair and anguish. Birger Malmsten, who plays the lead character Johannes and who will be seen in several later Bergman films, is immensely likable and compelling as the hunchback son who finally stands up to his despotic father.
The film is about the relationships within a family, a subject with which Bergman often dealt in later films, and uses other common devices of Bergman such as the hard father figure or the silence and cruelty of God.
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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[edit] Cast
- Birger Malmsten– Johannes Blom
- Holger Löwenadler – Kapten Blom
- Anna Lindahl – Alice Blom
- Gertrud Fridh – Sally
- Naemi Briese – Selma
- Hjördis Petterson – Sofi (as Hjördis Pettersson)
- Lasse Krantz – Hans
- Jan Molander – Bertil
- Erik Hell – Pekka
- Åke Fridell – Variety hall owner
- Douglas Håge – Customs officer (scenes deleted)
[edit] Rest of cast listed alphabetically
- Ami Aaröe – Young girl at the beach (uncredited)
- Torgny Anderberg – Man (uncredited)
- Ingmar Bergman – Man wearing a beret at the funfair (uncredited)
- Rolf Bergström – Blom's companion (uncredited)
- Torsten Bergström – Blom's companion (uncredited)
- John W. Björling – Older man (uncredited)
- Ingrid Borthen – Girl on the street (uncredited)
- Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs – Blom's companion (uncredited)
- Svea Holst – Woman present at the arrest of Blom (uncredited)
- Kiki – Dwarf (uncredited)
- Uno Larsson – Older man with glasses and hat (uncredited)
- Peter Lindgren – Foreign sailor (uncredited)
- Gunnar Nielsen – Young man at the beach (uncredited)
- Charles White – Black sailor (uncredited)
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: A Ship to India". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4255/year/1947.html. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
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