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Elvira Madigan

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Hedvig Jensen (Pia Degermark) has been performing as a tightrope walker under the name Elvira Madigan for years. When she meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren) in the Danish countryside, the two fall in love and decide to run away together. Sixten, an army deserter, has trouble finding work, and the couple face hard times. Then Sixten meets an old friend who questions his choices and urges him to leave Hedvig before their life becomes even tougher.
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 03/04/2019
4/4
Elvira Madigan is indeed remarkably beautiful, Almost every frame would make a painting, and yet the film is alive and cinematic, not simply photographs of pretty pictures. Go to Full Review James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk 10/06/2023
3.5/4
Widerberg succeeds magnificently in weaving an air of languid, poetic romanticism that is nevertheless punctuated at times with bits of harsh reality Go to Full Review Scott Nye Battleship Pretension 08/31/2023
With his first color film, Widerberg and cinematographer Jörgen Persson embrace the aesthetics of impressionist painters, creating a look much like that which Agnes Varda employed two years prior in La bonheur. Go to Full Review Gene Youngblood Los Angeles Free Press 01/31/2020
That a film should not be well-made in this age of technology is flatly unforgiveable. Go to Full Review Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) 04/13/2011
3/5
I have no patience for the unrealistic and rather personality-challenged lovers as they cavort through sun-dappled fields. Go to Full Review Fernando F. Croce CinePassion 09/22/2009
Liebestod as a shampoo commercial Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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10/24/2020 A masterpiece. The music and photography, the lightness of a true story which has the meaning of little revolution against any social convention. Working, buying and selling, social duties, social roles..and on the other side the flight of a butterfly, which is a perfect metaphor of a life deeply and shortly lived. See more 10/09/2020 A beautifully filmed movie--very romantic. A good date movie. See more 07/27/2015 Heavy little movie. And definitely doesn't feel like a 60's film. Mid 70's definitely. Anyway, I cried. You'll probably cry too. Very effective filmmaking. Creeps up on you. Stick with it, even if the beginning causes you to roll your eyes. See more 08/05/2014 Cinematographically and thematically quite lovely, but overall too boring for me. See more 11/19/2013 Never before or since, has a movie so involved people that a CLASSICAL music piece famous in it's own right---becomes "Elvira Madigan" music--Mozart's 21st Piano concerto! SO there had to be something in it to involve the audience! See more 09/15/2013 http://filmreviewsnsuch.blogspot.com/2013/09/elvira-madigan.html See more Read all reviews
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Bo Widerberg

Director

Pia Degermark

Hedvig 'Elvira' Madigan

Thommy Berggren

Lt. Sparre

Lennart Malmer

Kristoffer

Cleo Jensen

Cleo

Yvonne Ingdal

Elvira Madigans svenska röst

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Synopsis Hedvig Jensen (Pia Degermark) has been performing as a tightrope walker under the name Elvira Madigan for years. When she meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren) in the Danish countryside, the two fall in love and decide to run away together. Sixten, an army deserter, has trouble finding work, and the couple face hard times. Then Sixten meets an old friend who questions his choices and urges him to leave Hedvig before their life becomes even tougher.
Director
Bo Widerberg
Producer
Waldemar Bergendahl, Peter Fernandez
Screenwriter
Bo Widerberg
Production Co
Europa Film
Rating
PG
Genre
Romance
Original Language
Swedish
Runtime
1h 29m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm
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