Director
Alf Sjöberg
Composer
Torbjörn Lundquist
Cast
Georg Rydeberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Lena Nyman
Edition 1999
99'
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1969
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Swedish
The film deals with a marriage in which the couple’s only daughter becomes a weapon in their battle. The husband is an officer and a scientist and represents the masculine superman, an expression of a patriarchal and strictly discipline society. In this environment, the weakness of the woman is compensated by her greater inventiveness and her ultimate power, not as a woman but as a mother. By insinuating that her husband is not the father of her child, the wife drives her husband mad step by step. The film is based on the drama by Strindberg, a play that has the stringent structure of a Greek tragedy. Sjöberg has shattered the dramatic framework of the play in a grand finale which broadens the period setting of the play to modern universality.
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Credits
Directors
Alf Sjöberg
Composers
Torbjörn Lundquist
Cast
Georg Rydeberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Lena Nyman
Scenario
Alf Sjöberg
Director of Photography
Lasse Björne
Editors
Wic Kjellin
More info
Dialogue
Swedish
Countries of production
Sweden
Screenplay based on
"Fadern" (August Strindberg)
Year
1969