Never in Your Life (1956)

Original title

Det händer i natt

Directed by

Arne Ragneborn

Genre

drama film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man experiences a series of troubling events that involve crime and danger. The story is eventually revealed to be a dream, with a comedic tone added after censorship cuts.

dreamliketensedarkly comicunsettlingmelancholicslow-burn

What happens

Never in Your Life (Swedish: Aldrig i livet) is a 1957 Swedish crime film directed by Arne Ragneborn and starring Lars Ekborg, Ingrid Thulin and Sven-Eric Gamble. It was shot at the in Stocksund Studios in Stockholm. The film was originally made under the title It Happens Tonight (Det händer i natt) but faced major censorship issues, and was eventually released with cuts and a new title. The new version turned the events into a dream, and introduced greater comic elements. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Last Pair Out (1956)
• Night Child (1956)
• Stage Entrance (1956)
• The Biscuit (1956)
• Egen ingång (1956)
• A Doll's House (1956)
• The Stranger from the Sky (1956)
• Rätten att älska (1956)