It Rains on Our Love

  • Barbro Kollberg: Maggi
  • Birger Malmsten: David
  • Gösta Cederlund: Narrator / defender
  • Ludde Gentzel: Håkansson
  • Douglas Håge: Andersson
  • Benkt -Åke Benktsson: prosecutor
  • Sture Ericson: Kängsnöret
  • Ulf Johansson: Stålvispen
  • Julia Caesar: Hanna Ledin
  • Gunnar Björn beach: Mr. Purman
  • Erik Rosén: Judge
  • Magnus Kesster: Folke Törnberg
  • Åke Fridell: minister

It Rains on Our Love ( Original title: Det Regnar på vår kärlek ) is a twisted black and white Swedish film drama from the year 1946 appeared after a piece of the Norwegian author Oskar Braaten film was Ingmar Bergman's second directorial effort. .

Action

Maggi to be their dream, actress, has failed, and David, who has been sitting in jail a year due to theft, fall in love after a night together. Without money, accommodation and prospect of employment they break into a summer house. You are the owner, Mr. Håkansson, surprised by the involvement of the police but agrees to them to rent the cottage. David takes a job at a nearby nursery, and the two friends soon joined with the equally little wealthy neighbors from the surrounding huts. David rejects a marriage proposal but Maggi. Håkansson investigated the couple on again and it represents the choice to buy the lodge or take off within a short period. Maggi asks David not to make the purchase, and confesses to him that she is expecting a child from a previous flirtation. David runs away angry, but then decides to accept the strange child and sign the purchase agreement for the hut. When the city officials of Maggi learn pregnancy, they force them to move to a maternity hospital to get her child there. On the same day, when David learns that he is to be dismissed because of his criminal past, the child is born dead. A law enforcement officer appears on their property Shortly after Maggis return and opened them that the area should be evacuated from the city; Håkansson has sold them a worthless property. Out of anger about the ruthless attitude of officials David beat this. He is accused and brought to trial, but the public defender ( who is also the narrator in the movie) can obtain an acquittal. Maggi and David decide to defy all odds and find a new home together.

Background

Despite the failure of Bergman's debut film Kris offered to the independent Swedish producer Lorens Marmstedt Bergman to turn his next movie for him and the production company Sveriges Folk Biografer. Bergman accepted the offer and the revised by Herbert Grevenius by Oskar Braatens piece Bra mennesker (Eng. " Good People " ) wrote the screenplay. ( The piece was ever made ​​into a film in 1937 in Norway under its original title. ) Bergman noted later, his authorship was limited to the final court hearing.

Filming is set at four weeks were held in Stockholm in early summer 1946. On November 9, 1946 It Rains on Our Love celebrated its Swedish premiere and, according to Bergman " a modest critical success " was the movie. In Germany the film was not running in theaters, but was shown only on 14 January 1978 at the television.

In her monograph Marianne Bergman Höök made ​​in It's raining on our love influences of Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert. Jonas Sima suspected in an interview influences of film noir, which confirmed Bergman. In the same interview, Bergman described the films of Michael Curtiz as significant for its development: " He had the ability to completely clear and simple and honest to tell a story, just like Raoul Walsh. "

Position in Bergman's work

In addition to leading man Birger Malmsten It Rains on Our Love gathered in supporting roles at some later by Bergman regulars Gunnar players like Björn beach and Åke Fridell. Screenwriter and film critic Herbert Grevenius, who had supported the commitment Bergmans at the municipal theaters of Helsingborg and Gothenburg, worked among others with thirst (1949) and one summer (1951 ) reunited with the director.

Criticism

" An early Bergman film, in gesture and intention of the work of an angry young man; despite photographic and histrionic qualities but without stylistic coherence. "

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