Skepp till India land (A Ship Bound for India) (1947)
Movie Info
Cast
as Alexander Blom
as Alice his wife
as Johannes Blom
as Sally
as Selma
as Hans
as Bertil
as Pekka
as Sofie
as Variety hall owner
as Foreign sailor
as Young Girl
as Blom's Companion
as Girl in street
as Blom's Companion
as Young man
as Kapten Blom
Critic Reviews for Skepp till India land (A Ship Bound for India)
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At this stage the emotive and thematic weight of Bergman's ambitions prove a bit too much for his decidedly functional plotting and characterisation.
Though far from one of the master director's better films, it still has a few dazzling moments to be awed by.
Audience Reviews for Skepp till India land (A Ship Bound for India)
One of Bergman's first films is one of his most interesting, but it's not one of his best. The characterizations of the film's protagonists are inconsistent from scene to scene and some of them leave a viewer with many unanswered questions (like the mother's motivations.) Beyond that, the cinematography is pretty dowdy, particularly the exterior footage. Still, it has elements that Bergman fans will recognize from his more famous films, and it contains sequences of despair and anguish that can haunt a viewer days later. 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. While many of the early Bergman films are uninteresting at almost every level ("Port of Call," for instance) this one is well worth a look for the hard core Bergmaniac, if you can find it.
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