Music in Darkness
- Mai Zetterling: Ingrid
- Birger Malmsten: Bengt Vyldeke
- Bengt Eklund: Ebbe
- Olof Winner beach: Rev. Kerrman
- Naima Wifstrand: Mrs. Schroeder
- Åke Claesson: Mr. Schroeder
- Bibi Skoglund: Agneta Vyldeke
- Gunnar Björn beach: Klasson
- Douglas Håge restaurant owners pitcher
Music in the dark ( Original title: music i mörker ) is a twisted black and white Swedish film drama directed by Ingmar Bergman in the year 1948.
Action
The young recruit Bengt is injured during a military exercise and is henceforth blind. He moves in with his middle-class Aunt Beatrice, where he receives music lessons. Between Bengt and the simple maid Ingrid is a tender love story offing, but the first fails because of the class differences. After the rejection of his application at a music school Bengt want to stand on their own feet and takes a job as a pianist in a restaurant. After he is only used there, it changes as a piano tuner at a school for the blind. The offer to make a training as a church musician, he beats out defiantly.
One evening met Bengt Ingrid again, who has started a training and wants to be a teacher. Ingrid has become a friend, young workers low tide, the same school as attended Ingrid and Bengt mocked constantly. During a dance evening, Ingrid decides to Bengt, which is then crushed by the tide. Bengt thanks him, as he had treated him for the first time as a full human being.
Despite the opposition in their environment marry Bengt and Ingrid. He takes a job as a church organist, Ingrid continues to pursue its plan to get a degree and become a teacher to people who come from the same simple conditions as they themselves teach, can.
Background
Production and film start
After three from the audience neglected films Bergman received from the independent producer Lorens Marmstedt the offer for one more directing work under the condition that he accept a given material, the novel music i mörker by Dagmar Edqvist. Bergman agreed and wrote the screenplay with the author. The shooting took place in the Sandrew Studios in Stockholm in November and December 1947. Bergman had decided to stage the film audience appeal; a bill that worked well.
On January 17, 1948 Music was first performed in the dark in Sweden and ran in the autumn of the same year as a competition entry at the International Film Festival in Venice. In Germany Music ran in the dark not in theaters, but the first time on January 28, 1978 on television.
Position in Bergman's work
As in almost all his films rains between It On Our Love (1946) and prison (1949 ) portrayed Bergman also a young couple that fights against " the enemy access the environment" to fight back. ( Gregory / Patalas ) In addition to regular Bergman performers from this period as Birger Malmsten and Bengt Eklund and his future master actor Gunnar Björn beach can be seen in a small role. In later years the director did this commissioned work as a " small, fussy movie" from.
Reviews
" An early, more conventional Bergman melodrama, which still suffers from stylistic eclecticism and coarse symbolic language. "