Music in Darkness

{{short description|1947 film}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Music in Darkness

| image = Music in Darkness.jpg

| caption = Swedish cover

| director = Ingmar Bergman

| based_on = Music In Darkness (novel by Dagmar Edqvist)

| producer = Lorens Marmstedt

| writer = Ingmar Bergman
Dagmar Edqvist

| starring = Mai Zetterling
Birger Malmsten

| music = Erland von Koch

| cinematography = Göran Strindberg

| editing = Göran Strindberg

| studio = Terrafilms Produktions AB

| distributor = Terrafilm, Stjärnfilm

| released = {{film date|1948|1|17|df=yes}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = Sweden

| language = Swedish

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Music in Darkness ({{langx|sv|Musik i mörker}}), known in the United States as Night Is My Future, is a 1948 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman.

The screenplay was written by Bergman and Dagmar Edqvist,On Dagmar Edqvist's Novel {{cite web|url=http://www.ingmarbergman.se/page.asp?guid=B55D6302-60F9-4393-B470-836569F08A25|title=Ingmar Bergman Music in Darkness|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813151005/http://www.ingmarbergman.se/page.asp?guid=B55D6302-60F9-4393-B470-836569F08A25|archivedate=13 August 2010|accessdate=2010-11-22|df=dmy-all}} (retrieved 22 November 2010)Ingmar Gergman Foundation—Music in the Darkness – {{cite web|url=http://www.ingmarbergman.se/page.asp?guid=47F47207-3421-4310-8AA3-9C916E8495F7|title=Ingmar Bergman Musik i mörker - Synopsis|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824095444/http://www.ingmarbergman.se/page.asp?guid=47F47207-3421-4310-8AA3-9C916E8495F7|archivedate=24 August 2010|accessdate=2010-11-22|df=dmy-all}} (retrieved 22 November 2010) whose novel, Music In Darkness, is the basis of the film. The theme of blindness and of a blind's person subjective experience plays a major role in the psychological study depicted in the movie. Bergman was deeply passionate about music and once said,{{cite web|url=http://www.ingmarbergman.se/universe.asp?guid=E6D1AEEA-9A2F-4076-82BE-3E07FB57BCFB&LanCD=EN|title=Ingmar Bergman an unrequited love to music|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820152612/http://www.ingmarbergman.se/universe.asp?guid=E6D1AEEA-9A2F-4076-82BE-3E07FB57BCFB&LanCD=EN|archivedate=20 August 2010|accessdate=2010-11-22|df=dmy-all}} Bergman on Music "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."

Plot

Talented pianist Bengt Vyldeke loses his sight after being accidentally shot during a military exercise. Bengt is gripped by increasing bitterness and develops a relationship with Ingrid, a lower-class girl employed as a servant in the home of Bengt's parents.

Cast

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