A Ship Bound for India (1947)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman · Cinematography by Göran Strindberg
98 min58 frames
DramaRomance
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What is A Ship Bound for India about?
Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal, and the desire to escape. Told in flashback, the film explores family conflict, longing, and moral reckoning in an early milestone of Ingmar Bergman’s career.
A Ship Bound for India is a 1947 Swedish melodrama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, based on the play by Martin Söderhjelm. It was originally released as A Ship to India in the United Kingdom and Frustration in the United States. The film is about the relationships within a family, a subject with which Bergman often dealt in later films, and uses other common devices of Bergman, such as the hard father figure. Birger Malmsten, who plays the lead character Johannes, went on to feature in several later Bergman films.
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Sampled across 58 frames, the coverage of A Ship Bound for India leans on wide compositions (34% of the sample) and medium shots (31%). Cinematographer Göran Strindberg keeps 34% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Night and dusk account for 50% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 62% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of A Ship Bound for India (1947) are #050505, #2f2f2f, #6e6e6e, #919191, #cecece, #acabab — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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