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Sunday, Jul 13, 2025
4 PM (93 mins)
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Intermezzo
Digital Restoration
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Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
Arne Lunde is Research Professor in European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA.
Ingrid Bergman, Gösta Ekman, Inga Tidblad, Erik Berglund,
“Love doesn’t ask us to be sensible,” Gösta Ekman says to Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo, and luckily, neither do melodramas like this. The story is of a budding young pianist, Anita (Bergman), who is swept off her feet by a renowned concert violinist, Holger (Ekman), the father of one of her pupils. Their courtship/concert tour is told in film language run rampant (torrid kisses superimposed over moving trains), but there is something magical about the fake little Tyrolean village where it all stops. It is there that Bergman—who already evinces the inner conflict between passion and decorum, urgency, and aplomb that would define her screen persona—has her moment of heart-stopping honesty.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Gustaf Molander
- Gösta Stevens
Cinematographer
- Åke Dahlqvist
Language
- Swedish
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 93 mins
Source
- Swedish Film Institute
Permission
- Janus Films
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