June Night (1940)

Product Details: June Night (1940)

Edition:

DVD . See other editions

MPAA Rating:

Unrated

Release Date:

02/23/1999

UPC:

720917506029

Directed by:

Per Lindberg

Featuring:

Ingrid Bergman, Marianne Aminoff, Marianne Lofgren. See all cast

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1. Ingrid Bergman's final Swedish film

   , August 7, 2001
   Reviewer: drbernabo - See all drbernabo's reviews

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   "June Night" ("Juninatten") was the final film Ingrid Bergman made in Sweden before returning to the United States to continue the Hollywood career she had begun the previous year when she starred in David O. Selznick's version of her 1936 Swedish hit "Intermezzo." Bergman plays Kerstin Nordback, a young girl with neither friends nor family working as an apothocary in a small town. At the boarding house the landlady spies on her to make sure Kerstin is doing nothing wrong. At the library she encounters a sailor, Nils Asklund (Gunnar Sjoberg), who is also alone in the world. He tells her about all the sights he has seen in the world and they have an affair. In time Kerstein tries to break it off, but Nils threatens to commit suicide. However, he ends up shooting her instead. Kerstein survives and at Nils' trial helps to convince the jury that he had really meant to harm himself. However, the scandal is too much for her reputation and she has to move to Stockholm under a new name, Sara Nordana. There she finds her perfect match in Stefan Von Bremen (Olof Widgren), but the newspapers find out about her true identity.
   
   This 1940 film, also translated as "A Night in June," was directed by Per Lindberg, with a screenplay by Ragnar Hylten-Cavallius based upon a story by Tora Nordstrom-Bonnier. Swedish critics were particularly pround of "Juninatten," especially in terms of Bergman's performance and Lindberg's direction. Unfortunately, the Second World War disrupted the growth of the country's film industry; Lindberg made only three more films before his death in 1944. Besides Bergman's performance, which makes it clear why she went on to become an international star, what is most striking about this film is that this is a rather adult treatment of the topic. Swedish films always seem to take a more realistic and less judgmental look at "romance." This film is in Swedish with English sub-titles. The World Classics Cinema Collection currently consists of eight of these early films with Ingrid Bergman. ...

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