''Only One Night'' (Swedish: ''En enda natt'') is a 1939 Swedish
romantic drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by
Gustaf Molander
Gustaf Harald August Molander (18 November 1888 – 19 June 1973) was a Sweden, Swedish actor and film director. His parents were director Harald Molander, Sr. (1858–1900) and singer and actress Lydia Molander, ''née'' Wessler, and his brother ...
and starring
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.Obituary ''Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, she is often ...
,
Edvin Adolphson
Gustav Edvin Adolphson (25 February 1893 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish film actor and director who appeared in over 500 roles. He made his debut in 1912. He appeared with Ingrid Bergman in ''Only One Night'' (1939), and is noted for his ...
and
Aino Taube. Bergman agreed to appear in the film in exchange for being given the lead role she sought in ''
A Woman's Face
''A Woman's Face'' is a 1941 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt. It tells the story of Anna Holm, a facially disfigured blackmailer, who because of ...
'' the previous year.
[Neiiendam p.69]
Cast
*
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 191529 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays.Obituary ''Variety'', 1 September 1982. With a career spanning five decades, she is often ...
as Eva Beckman
*
Edvin Adolphson
Gustav Edvin Adolphson (25 February 1893 – 31 October 1979) was a Swedish film actor and director who appeared in over 500 roles. He made his debut in 1912. He appeared with Ingrid Bergman in ''Only One Night'' (1939), and is noted for his ...
as Valdemar Moreaux
*
Aino Taube as Helga Mårtensson
*
Olof Sandborg
Olof Sandborg (April 30, 1884 in Göteborg – March 26, 1965 in Stockholm) was a Swedish stage and film actor. He won the Eugene O'Neill Award in 1962.
Filmography
* '' Blodets röst'' (1913)
* '' Lady Marions sommarflirt'' (1913)
* ''Svärmo ...
as Magnus von Brede
*
Erik 'Bullen' Berglund
Karl Erik "Bullen" Berglund (30 June 1887 – 27 April 1963) was a Swedish actor, director and writer. Berglund was one of Sweden's most popular male actors in Swedish films from the 1930s to the 1950s. He appeared in more than a hundred films.
...
as Hagberg
*
Marianne Löfgren
Marianne Löfgren (24 February 1910 – 4 September 1957) was a Swedish actress. She played in Åke Ohberg's ''Elvira Madigan'' (1943), director Ingmar Bergman's debut ''Crisis'' in 1946, Hasse Ekman's ''Girl with Hyacinths'' (1950) and in o ...
as Rosa
*
Magnus Kesster
Magnus Kesster (29 July 1901 – 15 April 1975) was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1937 and 1957.
Selected filmography
* ''The Pale Count'' (1937)
* ''Happy Vestköping'' (1937)
* ''A Cruise in the Albertina'' (1938 ...
as Olsson
*
Ragna Breda
Ragna Breda (née Ragna Elisabeth Lindhjem, married name Ragna Bramer, October 12, 1905 – July 12, 1997) was a Norwegian actress as well as an author and translator of children's books.
Personal life
Ragna Breda was born in Horten, Norway. She ...
as Mrs. Krogh (uncredited)
References
Bibliography
* Soila, Tytti. ''The Cinema of Scandinavia''. Wallflower Press, 2005.
External links
*
1939 films
1939 romantic drama films
1930s Swedish-language films
Films directed by Gustaf Molander
Swedish romantic drama films
Swedish black-and-white films
1930s Swedish films
{{1930s-Sweden-film-stub