Characters & Themes
Prison (1949) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1949 · 75 mins · Swedish
- Directed by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Starring
- Britta Brunius, Kenne Fant, Ulf Palme, Lasse Sarri, Torsten Lilliecrona, Börje Mellvig
When a former math teacher pitches a film about the Devil proclaiming Earth to be hell, a director dismisses it. However, a series of unsettling events involving a writer, the director’s friend and a young prostitute he loves begin to echo the teacher’s chilling premise, suggesting that life itself becomes a kind of prison.
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