Between Life and Death
About Between Life and Death
Dr. A. Brinck (Ivar Kalling) and his assistant Inger Holm (Lilly Cronwin) spend days and nights in the laboratory on a cure for poisoning. Inger is in love with him. On a day off at an outdoor café he meets manufacturer Warren (Manne Göthson) and Warren's daughter Elsa (Mary Johnson), treats Elsa's injured foot, and is asked to the house. Inger finds them out and tells him she will avenge the betrayal. She sends Elsa a letter and poisons the gum on the return envelope. Elsa licks it, collapses, and seems dead. Brinck, called in by her father, can do nothing, then dreams of her coffin and of her standing in his room. Inger relents. On his next visit a messenger brings a bottle and her letter: she has solved the formula, she is saying goodbye, and the antidote wakes Elsa. Inger goes to a newspaper office and gives Brinck the credit for the cure. Elsa is left to marry him.
Cast & crew
More about Between Life and Death
Georg af Klercker wrote and directed it for Hasselblad. The Swedish premiere was 19 February 1917 at Mosebacke Biografteater in Stockholm. The censor rated it from age 15. Tekla Sjöblom plays Warren's wife Dorothea. William Engeström was production manager and Albert Ohlson stage manager.
Themes
Making
Gustav A. Gustafson, Carl Gustaf Florin, and Gösta Stäring photographed the Otterhällan studio scenes and the Gothenburg exteriors, including the café where Brinck meets the Warrens.
Look
Gustav A. Gustafson, Carl Gustaf Florin, and Gösta Stäring shared the photography.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The Swedish title is Mellan liv och död.
- Dinner guests at the Warrens include Gabriel Alw, Hugo Björne, Dagmar Ebbesen, Nils Lundell, and Victor Arfvidson.
- Inger's threat, quoted by the Swedish Film Database, is "Akta dig! Jag ska nog veta att hämnas din otrohet.
- The poison is on the gum of the envelope Elsa is asked to use for her reply, not in a drink.
- After the antidote works, Inger walks into a newspaper office and assigns the discovery to Brinck.
Scenes
- Brinck binds Elsa's injured foot at the outdoor café and is invited home.
- Inger paints poison on the gum of the envelope Elsa will lick.
- Brinck dreams Elsa is both in her coffin and in his bedroom.
- A messenger brings Inger's antidote, and Elsa wakes.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-mellan-liv-och-dd-aka-between-life-and-death)
Quotes
Akta dig! Jag ska nog veta att hämnas din otrohet.
