#A1/Eclipse Series 1: EARLY BERGMAN: BERGMAN, Ingmar: Crisis (1946)

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden)
Crisis [1946]
Spine #A1/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/Writers


Ingmar Bergman was 28 when he wrote and directed Crisis.
Based on a play by Leck Fisher.

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