Cinema
Intermezzo
Gustaf Molander · 1936
Synopsis
The violinist Holger Brandt, famous throughout the world, returns from a tour. He finds his wife Margit, to whom he has long been married and whose love has died, their son Åke, an engineering student, and their little daughter Ann-Marie, who has just had a new piano teacher, the young Anita Hoffman. Holger falls in love with her, despite a twenty-five-year age gap, and they become lovers. He ends up confessing it to his wife, breaks with his family and sets off on tour again, with Anita as his accompanist.
Context
The role of Anita was written for Ingrid Bergman, for whom it was the first major role; the film made her a star in Sweden and drew the attention of the producer David O. Selznick, who offered her a contract and a remake shot in Hollywood in 1939, in which she reprised her role in English opposite Leslie Howard. Opposite her, Gösta Ekman was then one of the best-known actors in the country. The theme that gives the film its title, by Heinz Provost, had won a competition linked to the production. The film was remade once more in 1980. Released in Sweden on 16 November 1936, it reached the United States only in December 1937.
Who it is for
Ninety-three minutes, in Swedish. A melodrama, which declares itself as such from the first scenes.
Prizes and reception
Well received by the Swedish press, it made its actress a star and opened Hollywood to her.
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