Eva (1948 film)

Eva
Eva
	Eva being shown in Amsterdam in 1951
Directed by	Gustaf Molander
Screenplay by	Ingmar Bergman; Gustaf Molander
Based on	"Trumpetaren och vår herre" by Ingmar Bergman
Produced by	Harald Molander
Starring	Birger Malmsten; Eva Stiberg; Eva Dahlbeck
Cinematography	Åke Dahlqvist
Edited by	Oscar Rosander
Distributed by	AB Svensk Filmindustri
Release date	26 December 1948;
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

Eva is a 1948 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and written by Ingmar Bergman.^[1]^[2] It was adapted from Bergman's short story "Trumpetaren och vår herre".^[3]

Plot[edit]

As Bo (Birger Malmsten) returns home from military service, he flashes back to an episode in his childhood where he ran away from home and fell in with a band of performers. One of the performers has a daughter, a blind girl, and seeking to impress her Bo steals a locomotive. The train crashes and the girl is killed. This is first of many intrusions of death into Bo's life.

We also see him dealing with his dying uncle and the body of a German soldier that has washed ashore. This is contrasted with life, as represented by his young lover Eva (Eva Stilberg) and eventually their son. In a Hitchcockian digression, Bo hallucinates killing his friend Göran (Stig Olin) to be with his alluring wife (Eva Dahlbeck).

Bo and Eva escape to a remote island whose only other occupant is a widowed farmer. Eva goes into labor early and Bo and the farmer must fight the current to row her to a hospital. In a montage superimposed over Bo's rowing, we see images from throughout the film, seeming to suggest a struggle between life and death that is going on his mind. Upon his son's birth, Bo feels a resolution to his search for meaning in a cruel world.

Cast[edit]

Birger Malmsten as Bo
Eva Stiberg as Eva
Eva Dahlbeck as Susanne
Åke Claesson as Fredriksson
Wanda Rothgardt as Mrs. Fredriksson
Hilda Borgström as Maria
Stig Olin as Göran
Inga Landgré as Frida
Olof Sandborg as Berglund
Carl Ström as Johansson
Sture Ericson as Josef Friedel

References[edit]

^ "EVA (1948)". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017.
^ "Eva". Time Out London.
^ "Den lille trumpetaren och Vår Herre". www.ingmarbergman.se.

External links[edit]

Eva at IMDb

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[1] "EVA (1948)". BFI. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017.

[2] "Eva". Time Out London.

[3] "Den lille trumpetaren och Vår Herre". www.ingmarbergman.se.

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Films written	Torment (1944) Woman Without a Face (1947) Eva (1948) While the City Sleeps (1950) Divorced (1951) Last Pair Out (1956) The Pleasure Garden (1961) The Lie (1970) The Best Intentions (1992) Sunday's Children (1992) Private Confessions (1996) Faithless (2000)
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