Word: degermark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is a Swedish folk tale set in the 1880's. Tight-rope dancer Elvira Madigan (16-year-old Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Tommy Berggen) fall in love, desert their families to live together in the summer of a Scandinavian countryside. They catch butterflies, roll in the flowers, move along from resort hotel to resort hotel. But they run out of money. And, trying to keep their identities secret, they are unable to find work. On the edge of starvation, Sparre kills Elvira, then himself...
...perfect effect. Widerberg seems more interested when he gets inside. The scene in the first hotel room is shot with a huge lens, making an unusual and effective flattening out--with Elvira, Sparre, the lamp, and the bed all in the same plane. The restaurant sequence, with Miss Degermark's face glowing gold from the slanting sunlight, is another fine piece of work...
ELVIRA MADIGAN. A Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) deserts his wife, children and career to spend a summer of delirious happiness with a tightrope walker (Pia Degermark) in this spare and remarkably sensitive pastoral film...
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