Eva (1948 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Eva

| image = 11-21-1951 10041 Nöggerath (5230999347).jpg

| caption = Eva being shown in Amsterdam in 1951

| director = Gustaf Molander

| producer = Harald Molander

| screenplay = Ingmar Bergman
Gustaf Molander

| based_on = "Trumpetaren och vår herre" by Ingmar Bergman

| starring = Birger Malmsten
Eva Stiberg
Eva Dahlbeck

| music =

| cinematography = Åke Dahlqvist

| editing = Oscar Rosander

| distributor = AB Svensk Filmindustri

| released = {{film date|1948|12|26|df=yes}}

| runtime = 98 minutes

| country = Sweden

| language = Swedish

}}

Eva is a 1948 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander and written by Ingmar Bergman.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71366f30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920185537/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71366f30|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 September 2017|title=EVA (1948)|website=BFI}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/eva|title=Eva|website=Time Out London|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229224428/https://www.timeout.com/london/film/eva|url-status=live}} It was adapted from Bergman's short story "Trumpetaren och vår herre".{{Cite web|url=https://www.ingmarbergman.se/verk/den-lille-trumpetaren-och-var-herre|title=Den lille trumpetaren och Vår Herre|website=www.ingmarbergman.se|access-date=29 December 2019|archive-date=29 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229224429/https://www.ingmarbergman.se/verk/den-lille-trumpetaren-och-var-herre|url-status=live}}

Plot

As Bo (Birger Malmsten) returns home from military service, he flashes back to an episode in his childhood where he ran away from home and fell in with a band of performers. One of the performers has a daughter, a blind girl, and seeking to impress her Bo steals a locomotive. The train crashes and the girl is killed. This is first of many intrusions of death into Bo's life.

We also see him dealing with his dying uncle and the body of a German soldier that has washed ashore. This is contrasted with life, as represented by his young lover Eva (Eva Stilberg) and eventually their son. In a Hitchcockian digression, Bo hallucinates killing his friend Göran (Stig Olin) to be with his alluring wife (Eva Dahlbeck).

Bo and Eva escape to a remote island whose only other occupant is a widowed farmer. Eva goes into labor early and Bo and the farmer must fight the current to row her to a hospital. In a montage superimposed over Bo's rowing, we see images from throughout the film, seeming to suggest a struggle between life and death that is going on his mind. Upon his son's birth, Bo feels a resolution to his search for meaning in a cruel world.