Prison

Prison

1949 · 80 min · SV · 7.2 (41 votes)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Starring Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning, Hasse Ekman, Stig Olin, Irma Christenson · Music Erland von Koch
Drama

A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.

VIBE

This film feels like a dark, existential fever dream. It's a bleak philosophical dive into the nature of sin and suffering, questioning whether humanity is inherently damned. The mood is heavy, ponderous, and deeply unsettling.

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