Elvira Madigan
Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker (Pia Degermark, winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress prize) and a lieutenant (Tommy Berggren) with a wife and children forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation. With its painterly, sun-dappled images and indelible use of Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21, this 1960s art-house sensation is the most ravishing expression of Widerberg’s recurring theme of the tension between individual freedom and social responsibility.
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Cast
- Pia Degermark
- Elvira Madigan/Hedvig Jensen
- Tommy Berggren
- Sixten Sparre
- Lennart Malmer
- Kristoffer
- Cleo Jensen
- Cleo
- Nina Widerberg
- Cleo’s daughter
Credits
- Director
- Bo Widerberg
- Written by
- Bo Widerberg
- Edited by
- Bo Widerberg
- Cinematography by
- Jörgen Persson
- Production manager
- Waldemar Bergendahl
- Sound by
- Sven Fahlén
- Music by
- W. A. Mozart
- Music by
- Antonio Vivaldi
A scene from Elvira Madigan
