Original title: En kvinnas ansikte Director: Gustaf Molander Writer: Francis de Croisset, Gösta Stevens Genre: Drama Country: Sweden Language: Swedish Subtitles: English burned-in Running Time: 1h 39mn Rating: 7.2/10 IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030337/
Cast: Ingrid Bergman as Anna Holm, aka Anna Paulsson Tore Svennberg as Magnus Barring Anders Henrikson as Dr. Wegert Georg Rydeberg as Torsten Barring Gunnar Sjöberg as Harald Berg Hilda Borgström as Emma Karin Kavli as Mrs. Wegert (as Karin Carlson-Kavli) Erik 'Bullen' Berglund as Nyman (as Erik Berglund) Sigurd Wallén as Miller Gösta Cederlund as The Count Magnus Kesster as Handsome Herman Göran Bernhard as Lars-Erik Barring Bror Bügler as Georg Mark
French playwright Francis de Croiset's heavily plotted Il Etait Une Fois formed the basis of the Swedish A Woman's Face (En Kvinnas Ansikte). Ingrid Bergman plays a woman embittered by the horrible scar on her face, the result of a childhood mishap. Feeling unworthy of the "good" world, Bergman becomes a criminal. Given a new countenance by plastic surgeon Anders Hendrikson, Bergman decides to start life all over again, only to become enmeshed in a complicated crooked scheme, engineered by smarmy aristocrat Georg Rydenberg. A Woman's Face was purchased by MGM and remade in 1941, with Joan Crawford in the lead; most cineastes consider the Swedish version as the better of the two by far-and what a terrific ending!
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An excellent film, one of the best that Ingrid Bergman made before she left Sweden for Hollywood. And surprisingly hard to find! I have seen this film shown exactly once in the USA.
01/07/2011 11.04 am
i've been searching for this film for two years, and thanks to your generosity, i am finally on my way to getting it! tack så jättemycket!!!
19/12/2010 03.51 pm
Thanks a lot. American film by Cukor is popular, but this original version is more difficult to find.
A Woman's Face (1938) En kvinnas ansikte
