Stockholm Film Festival

Strindberg's The Crown Bride (1902) is a Swedish Romeo and Juliet tale of the hatred between two dynasties and the love of two young people who are the tragic victims of the feud. Inger Åby has abridged Tura Rangström's opera, concentrating the drama more than ever on the love of Mats and Kersti. A music drama for today's film and televison audiences, intent on using the language of film at all levels.

Comment:
Horror beautified becomes sorrow and, as such, comprehensible. And Inger Åby's production of August Strindberg's and Ture Rangström's opera The Crownbride has moments of agonising beauty.
This is a sombre tala of love and menaces, of man's proclivity for losing his bearings in life and within himself - right to the inevitable end.
This is an opera, but at the same time something different: the embodiment of a drama in which music and film join in communicating a third something - something very strange and yet very familiar. And there is no getting away from it: the beholder can be profoundly moved by this inexpressibly beautiful, this very Swedish quality. Or, as Strindberg himself put it: Music at times is morally superior to poetry''. This being so, he would have had much to say about these pictures.

JGU

Orig. titel

Kronbruden

Medverkande

Eva Österberg, Stephen Smith, Anne- Marie Muhle

Producent

Jutta Ekman, Christina Hörnblad

Manus

Inger Åby, Gunilla Jensen

Foto

Gunnar Källström

Musik

Ture Rangström

Talat språk

Swedish

 

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