Brink of Life

Close to Life ( Original Title: Nära livet ) is a twisted black and white Swedish film drama by Ingmar Bergman in the year 1958.

Action

The standing still at the beginning of their pregnancy Cecilia is admitted with severe bleeding in the maternity ward. Shortly after her arrival, she loses her child; it is dabehalten for observation and placed in a room with two other women, Stina and Hjørdis. Stina is about to give birth, while the working-class girls Hjørdis is also under observation for bleeding. Later, the audience learns that Hjørdis ' bleeding triggered by her attempt to induce a miscarriage.

On a visit to her husband Anders Cecilia accuses him of the child not to have wanted, because they led both a loveless marriage, and accuses himself of weakness. During their discussion, the word " divorce" falls, and other affected leaves the station. Stina would be with her husband Harry to their child, Hjørdis ' friend on the other hand refuses to come to the hospital. A station doctor tries to persuade her to get her unwanted child, while these struggles violently Hjørdis. At night, Stina, whose labor has started, brought out of the room. Hjørdis which remains alone with Cecilia, tells her that her boyfriend already been forced to have an abortion and she is afraid to return to her mother, from whom she separated in dispute. Cecilia encourages them to make at least an attempt contact.

The next day, Stina is returned to Hjørdis ' and Cecilia's room, her child was stillborn. Cecilia agrees to receive and to reconsider their separation plans him at the request of Anders' sister. Hjørdis decides to get her child, calling her mother, who offers her, come back home.

Background

Production and film start

Following the international success of Wild Strawberries Bergman did not turn his next film for the production company Svensk Industri film, for at that time he made most of his work, but for the Nordisk Tonefilm. As a template, two stories by Ulla Isaksson, who also wrote the screenplay served. Bergman also led a figure of Hjørdis.

The studios of Nordisk Tonefilm were in a former gymnasium, where the film was made in late 1957. Near premiered living in Sweden on March 31, 1958.

In Germany Near ran the lives not in cinemas, but for the first time on 25 March 1978 at the television.

Position in Bergman's work

Already the Women (1952 ) Longing contained a long sequence showing one of the protagonists shortly before giving birth in the maternity ward. Near the living but only plays in the station and waives venue changes and flashbacks. Resembles Ingrid Thulins role in Wild Strawberries, here she plays an intellectual woman who is expecting a child by a man who wants to even children.

Ulla Isaksson wrote still for two more films Bergman's screenplay, The Virgin Spring (1960) and The Blessed (1986).

Reviews

The film met with a mostly positive critic response at home and abroad, with many reviewers were differentiated for the Bergman comparatively redeemed, simple visual style they " ascetic " and in a "documentary " circumscribed with adjectives like. The Arbetaren praised, " Bergman's pretentious language" had been " replaced by a poetic ", and Dagens Nyheter said, thanks to an excellent script and a " real life " imaging director, best of Bergman's film and " one of the best of Swedish cinema " at all. The verdict was by no means unanimous in: Expressen called the film for its lack of " pictorial virtuosity " an "artistic miscarriage ", and Jonas Sima rated it in a 1968 interview conducted with Bergman as phony and theatrical.

In Germany the lexicon of international film described the film as "sensitive and with excellent performers staged ".

Awards

  • Award for Best Actress at the International Film Festival of Cannes 1958 Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahl Beck, Bibi Andersson and Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
  • Award for Best Director in Cannes on Ingmar Bergman
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