His Excellency (1944 film)
| His Excellency | |
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| Directed by | Hasse Ekman |
| Written by | Bertil Malmberg Sven Stolpe |
| Based on | His Excellency by Bertil Malmberg |
| Produced by | Lorens Marmstedt |
| Starring | Lars Hanson Gunnar Sjöberg Elsie Albiin |
| Cinematography | Martin Bodin Hilding Bladh |
| Edited by | Lennart Wallén Rolf Husberg |
| Music by | Lars-Erik Larsson |
Production company | Terrafilm |
| Distributed by | Terrafilm |
Release date |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
His Excellency (Swedish: Excellensen) is a 1944 Swedish
Råsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne Åkermark. It is based on a 1942 play of the same title by Bertil Malmberg. It was part of a growing number of Swedish films more overtly critical of German war policy, and the only one of them to openly identify the occupiers as Germans and set it in a real country.[1]
Plot
A celebrated
concentration camp
where his Excellency later is imprisoned.
Cast
- Lars Hanson as His Excellency Herbert von Blankenau
- Gunnar Sjöberg as Captain Max Karbe
- Elsie Albiin as Elisabeth von Blankenau, his Excellency daughter
- Stig Järrel as maj. Monk
- Hugo Björne as father Ignatius
- Tord Stål as Dr. Amann
- Sven Magnusson as Wilhelm
- Hampe Faustman as Warder
- Håkan Westergren as Police Officer
- Carl Ström as Josef
- Magnus Kesster as Dr. Blumenreich
- Torsten Hillberg as Colonel
- Sigge Fürst as Kubelik
- Ivar Kåge as Marshal of the Court
- Sven Bergvall as President of Poet's Academy
References
- ^ Wright p.78
Bibliography
- Iverson, Gunnar, Soderbergh Widding, Astrid & Soila, Tytti. Nordic National Cinemas. Routledge, 2005.
- Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
- Wright, Rochelle. The Visible Wall: Jews and Other Ethnic Outsiders in Swedish Film. SIU Press, 1998.
External links
- His Excellency at IMDb
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