Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns - 1953
ABOUT THE FILM : Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
Svenska FilminstitutetWith Ingrid Bergman at Berns
Year: 1953
The date is 6 June 1953. People are crowded in front of Berns, the famous Stockholm restaurant and nec plus ultra of Swedish cultural life. Celebrities try to plough their way though the curious onlookers who have come to admire the guests of honour for this gala event: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. The crowd is teeming with renowned producers and actors.
Familiar faces include Anders Sandrew, director of the major Swedish film company Sandrew Metronome, and Lorens Marmstedt, a pioneer Swedish producer. Once the festivities are underway inside the restaurant, the Swedish Film Society gives awards to some of the biggest names in Swedish film. Among the recipients are actors Lars Hanson and Anita Björk, director Gustaf Molander and cinematographer Julius Jaenzon. But everyone is impatiently waiting for Ingrid Bergman, arriving only in the early hours of morning with Roberto Rossellini.
Nationality: Swedish
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Julius Jaenzon, Gustaf Molander, Lars Hanson, Gustaf Boge, Naima Wifstrand
Length: 5' 49"
Genre: documentary
Sound: sound
Original elements: black & white
Producer: Sandrew-Ateljéerna
Original language: Swedish
A BRIEF HISTORY : Med Ingrid Bergman på Berns
This current-event film is a suspenseful account of the return of an actress whose disconcerting simplicity is in stark contrast with the lavish gala. Ingrid Bergman was a persona non grata in Hollywood at the time.
Her romance with Roberto Rossellini caused a scandal with the American public when she left her husband Petter Lindström and their daughter to join the Italian director on the set of Stromboli.
In this commentary, the representatives of the film industry in her native country pay her the tribute she deserves, with a ceremony that gives something of a thumbing of the nose at Hollywood.
Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) was born in Stockholm in 1915. In 1935, she landed a role in Munkbrogreven, in which she shone with sincerity and natural ease. She shot a dozen or so films in Sweden before being discovered by David O. Selznick for a role in Intermezzo in 1939.
She then shared her time between the United States and Sweden, where she shot three films before joining Humphrey Bogart in Hollywood in 1942 for Casablanca, which marked the beginning of a series of successful films. After several nominations for best actress, she obtained an Oscar for her role as Paula in George Cukor's Gaslight.
After meeting Roberto Rossellini in 1949, she moved to Italy and performed in some of the director's most famous films, like Viaggio in Italia. She did not return to the United States until seven years later for her role as Anastasia in the film of the same name by Anatole Litvak, which earned her another Oscar.
The source material was printed in 1996 from the original nitrate picture and sound negatives, held at the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute, which shares the same origins as the Swedish Film Society.
