Hedvig 'Elvira' Madigan
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Elvira Madigan is a 1967 Swedish romantic drama film directed by Bo Widerberg and starring Pia Degermark and Thommy Berggren. It is based on the tragedy of the Danish slackrope dancer Hedvig Jensen, working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather's travelling circus, and her romance with Swedish nobleman lieutenant Sixten Sparre.
Elvira Madigan: Directed by Bo Widerberg. With Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen. The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children.
Roger Ebert praises the beauty and style of Bo Widerberg's film, but criticizes its romanticism and egoism. He compares it to Bonnie and Clyde and argues that it is not a tribute to love, but to the human ego.
Elvira Madigan. Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker (Pia Degermark, winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Best Actress prize) and a lieutenant (Tommy Berggren) with a wife and ...
Hedvig Jensen (Pia Degermark) has been performing as a tightrope walker under the name Elvira Madigan for years. When she meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre (Thommy Berggren) in the Danish...
1967. Directed by Bo Widerberg. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
In the late 19th century, Sixten Sparre, a Swedish Army officer with a wife and two children, deserts his regiment and runs off with Elvira Madigan, a circus tightrope performer.
