A Ship Bound for India
| A Ship Bound for India | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
| Produced by | Lorens Marmstedt |
| Screenplay by | Ingmar Bergman |
| Based on |
Skepp till India land by Martin Söderhjelm |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Erland von Koch |
| Cinematography | Göran Strindberg |
| Edited by | Tage Holmberg |
| Distributed by | Nordisk Tonefilm |
Release date | 22 September 1947 |
Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
A Ship Bound for India (Swedish: Skepp till Indialand) is a 1947 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally released as A Ship to India in the United Kingdom and Frustration in the United States. The screenplay was written by Bergman, based on the play by Martin Söderhjelm.[1]
The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Plot
The film tells the story of the past of the character Johannes, and his relationships with his cruel father, his mother, and his father's mistress 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.
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)
- 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)
References
- ↑ Vermilye, Jerry (2002). Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. pp. 56–57. ISBN 0786429593.
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: A Ship to India". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
