Discover
The hunchbacked sailor Johannes (Birger Malmsten) longs to escape his home on a salvage ship helmed by his cruel, drunken father (Holger Löwenadler)—and so does the captain himself, who is slowly going blind and planning to leave his wife and son for a music-hall performer named Sally (Gertrud Fridh). The family begins to unravel when the captain invites Sally to live on the ship, where she and Johannes form a tender connection. Told in flashback and inspired in part by French poetic realism, A Ship to India marks a major evolution in Ingmar Bergman’s early filmmaking, demonstrating his gifts as a conjurer of beguiling images and a dramatist of lacerating emotions.
Original Release
09/22/1947
US Release
08/26/1949
Links
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Holger Löwenadler | Kapten Alexander Blom / Captain Alexander Blom |
Anna Lindahl | Alice Blom |
Birger Malmsten | Johannes Blom |
Gertrud Fridh | Sally |
Naemi Briese | Selma |
Hjördis Petterson | Sofi |
Lasse Krantz | Hans |
Jan Molander | Bertil / Crew |
Erik Hell | Pekka / Crew |
Åke Fridell | Variety hall owner / Variety Hall Manager |
Directors
Writers
Ingmar Bergman, Martin Söderhjelm
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Holger Löwenadler | Kapten Alexander Blom / Captain Alexander Blom |
Anna Lindahl | Alice Blom |
Birger Malmsten | Johannes Blom |
Gertrud Fridh | Sally |
Naemi Briese | Selma |
Hjördis Petterson | Sofi |
Lasse Krantz | Hans |
Jan Molander | Bertil / Crew |
Erik Hell | Pekka / Crew |
Åke Fridell | Variety hall owner / Variety Hall Manager |
Douglas Håge | Customs officer |
Ami Aaröe | Young girl at the beach |
Torgny Anderberg | Man |
Ingmar Bergman | Man Wearing a Beret at the Funfair |
Rolf Bergström | Blom's companion |
John W. Björling | Older man |
Ingrid Borthen | Girl on the street |
Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs | Blom's companion |
Svea Holst | Woman present at the arrest of Blom |
Kiki | Dwarf |
Producers
Name | Role |
---|
Lorens Marmstedt | Producer |