A Ship to India
The hunchbacked sailor Johannes (Birger Malmsten) longs to escape his home on a salvage ship helmed by his cruel, drunken father (Holger Löwenadler)—and so does the captain himself, who is slowly going blind and planning to leave his wife and son for a music-hall performer named Sally (Gertrud Fridh). The family begins to unravel when the captain invites Sally to live on the ship, where she and Johannes form a tender connection. Told in flashback and inspired in part by French poetic realism, A Ship to India marks a major evolution in Ingmar Bergman’s early filmmaking, demonstrating his gifts as a conjurer of beguiling images and a dramatist of lacerating emotions.
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Cast
- Holger Löwenadler
- Captain Alexander Blom
- Anna Lindahl
- Alice Blom
- Birger Malmsten
- Johannes Blom
- Gertrud Fridh
- Sally
- Naemi Briese
- Selma
- Hjördis Petterson
- Sofi
- Lasse Krantz
- Hans
- Jan Molander
- Bertil
- Erik Hell
- Pekka
- Åke Fridell
- Variety hall owner
Credits
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer
- Lorens Marmstedt
- Based on the play by
- Martin Söderhjelm
- Cinematographer
- Göran Strindberg
- Editor
- Tage Holmberg
- Art director
- P. A. Lundgren
- Production manager
- Allan Ekelund
- Music
- Erland von Koch
- Sound
- Lars Nordberg
- Sound
- Sven Josephson
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