Bergmanorama: Ingmar Bergman: Films: This Can't Happen Here (1950)

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THIS CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

(Sånt händer inte här, 1950)

COMMENTARY

"There's nothing in it I like at all. I think it's disgusting."

— Ingmar Bergman, Bergman on Bergman

"Few of my films do I feel ashamed of or detest for various reasons. This Can't Happen Here was the first one; I completed it accompanied by violent inner opposition. The other is The Touch. Both mark the very bottom for me."

— Ingmar Bergman, Images: My Life in Film

Cast

Credits

Vera Irmelin: Signe Hasso
Björn Almkvist: Alf Kjellin
Atkä Natas: Ulf Palme
Physician: Gösta Cederlund
Lindell: Yngve Nordwall
Pastor: Hannu Kompus
Vanja: Sylvia Tael
Refugee woman: Els Vaarman
Leino: Edmar Kuus
Woman at wedding: Helene Kuus
"Skuggan": Rudolf Lipp

Producer: Helge Hagerman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay: Herbert Grevenius, based on the novel During Twelve Hours by Peter Valentin [Waldemar Brøgger]
Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer
Art Direction: Nils Svenwall
Music: Erik Nordgren
Editor: Lennart Wallén

Ulf Palme, Alf Kjellin

THIS CAN'T HAPPEN HERE

Original title:
Sånt händer inte här ["This doesn't happen here"]

Other titles:
Cela ne se produirait pas ici (France); High Tension (UK); Menschenjagd (Germany); Sellaista ei tapahdu täällä (Finland); Sådan noget hænder ikke her (Denmark); Sånt hender ikke her (Norway)

Production:
Svensk Filmindustri

Distribution:
Svensk Filmindustri

Premiere:
23 October 1950 (Röda Kvarn, Stockholm)

Running time:
84 minutes

Aspect ratio:
1.37:1

Language:
Swedish

Filmed:
on location in Stadsgården and Ängby, Stockholm, and at Råsunda Studios; from 6 July to 19 August 1950.

LINKS

IMDb: This Can't Happen Here