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7.0/10   861 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Noelle Gilmour (English version)
Johan Lindström Saxon (ballad)
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Release Date:
24 April 1967 (Sweden) more
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Tagline:
Sometimes truth is more exciting
Plot:
Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 3 nominations more
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Breathtakingly beautiful photography & music more (22 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)
Pia Degermark ... Hedvig 'Elvira' Madigan
Thommy Berggren ... Lt. Sparre
Lennart Malmer ... Kristoffer
Cleo Jensen ... Cleo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yvonne Ingdal ... Elvira Madigan (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Elvira Madigan (USA)
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Runtime:
91 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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Soundtrack:
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major K. 467 more

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16 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
Breathtakingly beautiful photography & music, 29 January 2000
10/10
Author: Don W from Long Island Motor Parkway

Breathtakingly beautiful photography & music help to make this movie the finest love story I've seen. It's based on a true story that took place in 1859, although the movie is set at a somewhat later date. It's hard to imagine that these two young people, so full of life & love for each other, would choose the option they did to resolve their problems, but part of what this movie shows us is the inability of these two "upper class" individuals (Lt. Sparre is a Count, an aristocrat, & Elvira is a world famous circus performer who is mentioned in newspaper articles & a book) to cope with life once it has beeen altered beyond what they have been accustomed to deal with. If you choose not to read the subtitles, you'll still enjoy the movie for its visual beauty & the terrific music by Mozart & Vivaldi. Ironically, the drawing Elvira pawns for pennies is by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec!!

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