#0000A/Eclipse Series 1: EARLY BERGMAN: BERGMAN, Ingmar: Crisis (1946)

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden)

Crisis [1946]
Spine #0000A/Eclipse Series 1

DVD/Blu-ray

2007 synopsis

Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her. Once in Stockholm, Nelly receives a crash course in adult corruption and wrenching heartbreak.

2018 synopsis

With his very first film as a director, made under the mentor ship of the silent-film maestro Victor Sjöström, Ingmar Bergman began exploring a couple of the essential themes of his early period: youth pitted against crass society and the tensions between men and women. The eighteen-year-old Nelly (Inga Landgré), who lives with her foster mother in a quiet provincial town, is shaken by the sudden arrival of her birth mother (Marianne Löfgren), who eventually takes her to Stockholm — where Nelly receives a crash course in corruption and wrenching heartbreak. Crisis proved that Bergman had an incipient gift for developing characters and evoking atmosphere on-screen. 

93 minutes
Black & White

Monaural

in Swedish

1:33:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 2007/2018

Director/Writer

Ingmar Bergman was 28 when he directed Crisis.

Other Bergman films in the Collection:

#0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Ship To India (1947)
#0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Port Of Call (1948)

#0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Thirst (1949)
#0000A/Eclipse Series 1: To Joy (1949)
#0000A/#613: Summer Interlude (1951)
#0000A: Waiting Women (1952)
#0000A/#614: Summer With Monika (1953)
#0000A/#412: Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)
#0000A: A Lesson In Love (1954)
#0000A/#237: Smiles Of A Summer Night (1955)
#0000A: Dreams (1955)
#0000A/#11: The Seventh Seal (1957)
#0000A/#139: Wild Strawberries (1957)
#0000A/#537: The Magician (1958)
#0000A: Brink Of Life (1958)
#0000A/#321: The Virgin Spring (1960)
#0000A: The Devil's Eye (1960)
#0000A/#209: Through A Glass Darkly (1961)
#0000A/#210: Winter Light (1962)
#0000A/#211: The Silence (1963)
#0000A: All These Women (1964)
#0000A/#701: Persona (1966)
#0000A/#961: Shame (1968)
#0000A: Hour Of The Wolf (1968)
#0000A: The Passion Of Anna (1969)
#0000A: The Rite (1969)
#0000A: Fårö Document [1970)

#0000A: The Touch (1971)
#0000A/#101: Cries And Whispers (1972)
#0000A/#229: Scenes From A Marriage (1973)
#0000A/#71: The Magic Flute (1975)
#0000A: The Serpent's Egg (1977)
#0000A/#60: Autumn Sonata (1978)
#0000A: Fårö Document 1979 (1979)

#0000A: From The Life Of Marionettes (1980)
#0000A/#262: Fanny And Alexander -- The Television Version (1982)
#0000A/#263: Fanny And Alexander -- The Theatrical Version (1982)
#0000A/#264: The Making Of Fanny And Alexander (1982)
#0000A: After The Rehearsal (1984)
#0000A: Saraband (2003)

The Film

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

99

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