Prison (1949 film)
Prison, also known as The Devil's Wanton in the United States, is a 1949 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It is the earliest film directed by Bergman to be based on his own original screenplay.
Plot
Other than film-maker Martin Grandé, the characters are types: Thomas, a writer; his wife Sofi, who leaves him after he proposes a suicide pact; Birgitta Carolina Søderberg, a teenage prostitute; and Peter, her pimp by whom she has a child that he kills. The film presents Thomas living the scenario that Grandé and he discussed, a world that is really Hell and ruled by the Devil instead of God. He and Birgitta are unable to escape their unhappiness together.Cast
- Doris Svedlund – Birgitta Carolina Søderberg
- Birger Malmsten – Thomas
- Eva Henning – Sofi
- Hasse Ekman – Martin Grandé
- Stig Olin – Peter
- Irma Christenson – Linnéa
- Anders Henrikson – Paul
- Marianne Löfgren – Mrs. Bohlin
- – Anna
- Curt Masreliez – Alf
- Britta Holmberg – Birgitta's Mother in Dream