Changing Trains

Changing Trains

1943. Sweden. Written and directed by Hasse Ekman. With Ekman, Sonja Wigert, Georg Rydeberg. Two former lovers, unexpectedly reunited in a train station somewhere in Sweden, spend the night together, as the narrative shuttles between past and present. This sad, tender film is Ekman’s first collaboration with writer Walter Ljungquist, and an example of French poetic realism’s influence on 1940s Swedish cinema. It was also the first of many Ekman films with a theater setting. In Swedish; English subtitles. 92 min.