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His Excellency (1944 film)
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Wikipedia article
'His Excellency' (Swedish: 'Excellensen') is a 1944 Swedish drama film directed by Hasse Ekman and starring Lars Hanson, Gunnar Sjberg and Elsie Albiin. It was made at the Rsunda Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arne kermark. 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.Wright p.78
Plot
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.
Cast
*Lars Hanson as His Excellency Herbert von Blankenau
*Gunnar Sjberg as Captain Max Karbe
*Elsie Albiin as Elisabeth von Blankenau, his Excellency daughter
*Stig Jrrel as maj. Monk
*Hugo Bjrne as father Ignatius
*Tord Stl as Dr. Amann
*Sven Magnusson as Wilhelm
*Hampe Faustman as Warder
*Hkan Westergren as Police Officer
*Carl Strm as Josef
*Magnus Kesster as Dr. Blumenreich
*Torsten Hillberg as Colonel
*Sigge Frst as Kubelik
*Ivar Kge as Marshal of the Court
*Sven Bergvall as President of Poet's Academy
References
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.
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