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No Way Back (1947 film)

No Way Back
Directed byEdvin Adolphson
Written byEdvin Adolphson
Ragnar af Geijerstam
Based onDrift by Hans Severinsen
Produced byCarl Nelson
StarringEdvin Adolphson
Anita Björk
Gaby Stenberg
CinematographyHilding Bladh
Edited byLennart Wallén
Music bySune Waldimir
Production
company
Monark Film
Distributed bySandrew-Baumanfilm
Release date
  • 18 August 1947 (1947-08-18)
Running time
98 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

No Way Back (Swedish: Ingen väg tillbaka) is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by and starring Edvin Adolphson and also featuring Anita Björk, Olof Bergström and Gaby Stenberg.[1] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Spjuth.

Synopsis

Hugo Henriksen, a widowed businessman in wartime occupied Copenhagen is about to be granted a directorship and is persuaded by his daughter Evelyn to go out and celebrate. During an air raid a series of events lead to him accidentally killing a prostitute who had accosted him. He is witness leaving the vicinity by Preben, a young man who hopes to marry Evelyn. Henriksen leaves the city to avoid the hue and cry, and briefly enjoys some days of happiness with a woman Inger who he meets. However, he abruptly leaves her and returns to Copenhagen.

He discovers Preben is mixed up with the anti-German resistance movement. He eventually also sacrifices himself in the cause, as he is already a doomed man.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Qvist & Von Bagh p.30

Bibliography

  • Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.