Eva (1948)

Highly Recommended

Sweden

Feature Film

Director: Gustaf Molander

Writers: Ingmar Bergman, Gustaf Molander

Cinematographer: Åke Dahlqvist

Composer: Erik Nordgren

Cast: Birger Malmsten, Eva Stiberg, Eva Dahlbeck, Åke Claesson, Wanda Rothgardt, Hilda Borgström, Stig Olin, Lasse Sarri

With Molander’s portentous, symbolically rich mise en scène, the universally excellent performances, and Bergman’s typically, psychologically probing screenplay, this little seen gem – juxtaposing scenes of death and disease, sex and birth – is a powerful, moving, and thought provoking minor masterpiece. Iain.Stott