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.
Elvira Madigan, a beautiful 16-year-old tightrope walker, ran away from her family's circus in the summer of 1889. Count Sixten Sparre, a young lieutenant with two children, abandoned his family and deserted from the army. After a summer together, they committed suicide in the autumn. Widerberg begins his story with a scene in a sunny clearing.
Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships.
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 ...
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. Ignoring the social conventions and moral restrictions of the day, they abandon their former ways of life in the hope of finding happiness together.
The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away. Hedvig Jensen is a famous rope-walker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan.
