His Excellency (1944 film)

His Excellency (Swedish: Excellensen) is a 1944 Swedish drama film directed by Hasse Ekman and starring Lars Hanson, Gunnar Sjöberg and Elsie Albiin. It was made at the 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]

His Excellency
Directed byHasse Ekman
Written byBertil Malmberg
Sven Stolpe
Based onHis Excellency by Bertil Malmberg
Produced byLorens Marmstedt
StarringLars Hanson
Gunnar Sjöberg
Elsie Albiin
CinematographyMartin Bodin
Hilding Bladh
Edited byLennart Wallén
Rolf Husberg
Music byLars-Erik Larsson
Production
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Terrafilm
Distributed byTerrafilm
Release date
  • 3 March 1944 (1944-03-03)
Running time
101 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

Plot

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A celebrated Austrian poet strongly opposes Nazism, meanwhile his daughter falls in love with a leading Nazi who becomes commander over the concentration camp where his Excellency later is imprisoned.

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References

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  1. ^ Wright p.78

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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