A Ship to India

Original title: Skepp till India land

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A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.

Director
- Ingmar Bergman
Writers
- Ingmar Bergman
- Martin Söderhjelm
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6.4/10

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Director
- Ingmar Bergman
Writers
- Ingmar Bergman
- Martin Söderhjelm
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Holger Löwenadler

Kapten Alexander Blom

Anna Lindahl

Alice Blom

Birger Malmsten

Johannes Blom

Gertrud Fridh

Sally

Naemi Briese

Selma

Hjördis Petterson

Sofi
(as Hjördis Pettersson)

Lasse Krantz

Hans

Jan Molander

Bertil

Erik Hell

Pekka

Åke Fridell

Variety hall owner

Douglas Håge

Customs officer
(scenes deleted)

Ami Aaröe

Young girl at the beach
(uncredited)

Torgny Anderberg

Man
(uncredited)

Ingmar Bergman

Man Wearing a Beret at the Funfair
(uncredited)

Rolf Bergström

Blom's companion
(uncredited)

John W. Björling

Older man
(uncredited)

Ingrid Borthen

Girl on the street
(uncredited)

Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs

Blom's companion
(uncredited)

Director
- Ingmar Bergman
Writers
- Ingmar Bergman
- Martin Söderhjelm
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Trivia
Ingmar Bergman: 17'50" into the film, can be seen in the amusement park, watching the performance of "Kasper Teater", a marionette show.

Quotes
Sally: [to Johannes] I know what you're thinking. I know what you want to say. But don't say anything. Don't think anything.

Alternate versions
American version, under the title "Frustration", runs 78 minutes. While most of the Swedish version is told as an extended flashback, the US cut omits the "present day" prologue and instead offers the story chronologically.

Connections
Edited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)

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Featured review

7/10

Boistrous, Melodramatic Early Bergman

The baggage the youthful Ingmar Bergman was carrying about his parent's generation finds vivid expression in this, his third feature, from his early "neo-realist" phase, which combines an extremely melodramatic plot about a hunch-backed young man (Birger Malmsten) struggling with the baleful influence of his macho, bullying father (Holger Löwenadler), set against an arresting backdrop of documentary-style footage of life among working folk. The noisy musical score by Erland von Koch marks it out as a very early Bergman.