Music in Darkness (1947)

Original title

Musik i mörker

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Genre

drama film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

K-16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man loses his sight in an accident and struggles to adjust to his new life as a blind person. The film follows his emotional journey and his deepening connection to music.

melancholicintimatesubjectivesensoryquietly intensepersonalemotionally raw

What happens

Music in Darkness (Swedish: Musik i mörker), known in the United States as Night Is My Future, is a 1948 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman from a screenplay he co-wrote with Dagmar Edqvist, based on Edqvist's novel of the same name. The theme of blindness and of a blind's person subjective experience plays a major role in the psychological study depicted in the film. Bergman was deeply passionate about music and once said, "If I had to choose between losing my eyes or ears—I would keep my ears. I can't imagine anything more terrible than to have my music taken away from me." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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