A Ship Bound for India

Original title: Skepp till India land

1947
12
1h 38m

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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

2.4K

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

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

Top cast24

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Holger Löwenadler

Alexander Blom

Anna Lindahl

Alice Blom - Alexanders hustru

Birger Malmsten

Johannes Blom - Alexander och Alice son

Gertrud Fridh

Sally - Varietésångerska

Naemi Briese

Selma

Hjördis Petterson

Sofi
(as Hjördis Pettersson)

Lasse Krantz

Hans - Besättningsman

Jan Molander

Bertil - Besättningsman

Erik Hell

Pekka - Besättningsman

Åke Fridell

Varietédirektören

Douglas Håge

Tullmannen
(scenes deleted)

Ami Aaröe

Ung flicka på stranden
(uncredited)

Torgny Anderberg

En man
(uncredited)

Ingmar Bergman

Man i basker vid kasperteatern på tivolit
(uncredited)

Rolf Bergström

Alexanders kumpan (1)
(uncredited)

John W. Björling

En äldre man på varietéscenen
(uncredited)

Ingrid Borthen

Flicka på gatan
(uncredited)

Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs

Alexanders kumpan (2)
(uncredited)

Director
- Ingmar Bergman
Writers
- Ingmar Bergman
- Martin Söderhjelm
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Featured review

7/10

Dark and unconscionable

I'm not a movie expert by any means but I do really enjoy noir movies from the forties and fifties and especially foreign ones. Each week I search the internet to discover a good one I haven't seen. A Ship to India certainly satisfies the noir in me. However the morals of the 3 main characters are pretty shocking for a 1947 movie. Attempted rape, adultery, drunkenness, prostitution, and infidelity on two fronts. Also attempted suicide. If this is what you like you'll enjoy if but you're a Casablanca , Silence of the Sea kind of person like me, this will be too impure. I like to feel satisfied at the end of a movie but with this one infidelity wins.

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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.