Singoalla

It is the Middle Ages. The knight Erland is out hunting when he meets the beautiful gypsy girl, Singoalla, vigorously portrayed by Viveca Lindfors. He is bewitched. When Erland meets Singoalla again, he leaves his castle and his bride to be to live with Singoalia. Before the band of gypsies move on, they plunder the castle of its treasures. The gypsy chief has already promised Singoalla to someone else and this rival poisons the knight Erland.

Comment:
''Singoalla'' was written by Runeberg way back in time ... A Gothic tale ... A medieval love story between a gypsy girl and a Swedish nobleman ... Tragic, haunting, reminding us all of the power of love ..
Of passion ... The power of deep intimacy ... The bond between man and woman .. Never to be erased ... Ignoring time and place ... I wish 1 had understood the rules better myself..
Lorens Marmstedt, a dreamer, an artist of a producer, courageous too and ambitious ... Decided to do Gypsy Fury ... Three
versions One French, one English and one
Swedish No phony dubbing versions like
they do today in parts of Europe ... Dubing no matter how good the technique, is the death of all great performances ..
Marmstedt determined to make an international film ... A big film ... Better than they
do in Hollywood Hired a French director,
Christian- Jaque And his superb director
of photography The film is beautifully
shot. .. I was never better photographed in my life ... Michel Auclair, a brilliant young French Actor played my French lover. .. Alf Kjellin my Swedish and English lover ... I did
all three versions Yes I was brought back
from Hollywood Not yet replaced, right
Viveca?.
Images come back to me of early dawn ...
The mist hanging over the meadows ... The gypsies are waiting ... It is cold ... so cold .. Finally the light is right. .. Christian-Jaque calls: ''camera - action'' ... The gypsy caravan starts moving across the snow-spotted field ... The camera hidden in the meadows .. takes it in ... The wagons, the horses, the dogs ... The gypsies ... Yes courageous in their constant wandering and search for survival. .. Never to give up the passion, the freedom ... It is what the gypsies mean to me ..
For me Gypsy Fury was an enormous oppurtunity ... I think, I hope I did whatever I was capable of as an actress ... I wish I had known what I know now ... But then I wouldn't have looked like I did ... I wonder though was I appreciated on the effort? Did I understand? Was I still on a Hollywood cloud? ..
Viveca Lindfors