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Woman Without a Face

Kvinna utan ansikte
Gustaf Molander
Sweden
 - 1947
Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected...
Gustaf Molander
Swedish filmmaker born in Helsinki in 1888 and died in Stockholm in 1973. Between 1907 and 1909 he trained at the Dramaten in Stockholm, where he later taught students such as Greta Garbo, and worked as an actor at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki and at the Dramaten itself. He wrote several scripts for Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, before making his debut in 1920 with ‘Bodakungen’, which marked the beginning of his collaboration with Svensk Filmindustri and helped to launch Scandinavian cinema. In his half-a-century-long career in cinema, he directed farces and comedies, dramas and period pieces, films for children and young people, biopics and films depicting the war and its aftermath. He participated in the Venice Film Festival with films such as ‘A Woman’s Face’ (1938), ‘Jacobs Stege’ (1942), ‘Eva’ (1949) and ‘The Woman Without a Face’, which was the first of his two collaborations with a young Ingmar Bergman as a screenwriter (the other was ‘Divorced’, 1951).

Screenings

O.V. in Swedish with English and Spanish subtitles
Fri. 18, 19:30
Mon. 21, 17:00
DIRECTOR
Gustaf Molander
SCREENPLAY
Ingmar Bergman, Gustaf Molander
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Åke Dahlqvist
EDITOR
Oscar Rosander
SOUND
Lennart Unnerstad
MUSIC
Erik Nordgren, Julius Jacobsen
PRODUCTION
Harald Molander
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Svensk Filmindustri
CAST
Alf Kjellin, Gunn Wållgren, Anita Björk, Stig Olin, Olof Winnerstrand, Marianne Löfgren, Georg Funkquist, Åke Grönberg
RUNNING TIME
104 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
blanco y negro
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
1947
VERSION
V.O. en sueco subtitulada en español e inglés
COUNTRY
Sweden
CONTACT
Swedish Film Institute
Copy restored by the Swedish Film Institute (Svenska Filminstitute)

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