No Way Back | |
Director: | Edvin Adolphson |
Producer: | Carl Nelson |
Based On: | Drift by Hans Severinsen |
Starring: | Edvin Adolphson Anita Björk Gaby Stenberg |
Editing: | Lennart Wallén |
Studio: | Monark Film |
Distributor: | Sandrew-Baumanfilm |
Runtime: | 98 minutes |
Country: | Sweden |
No Way Back (Swedish: Ingen väg tillbaka) is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by and starring Edvin Adolphson and also featuring Anita Björk, Olof Bergström and Gaby Stenberg.[1] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Spjuth.
Hugo Henriksen, a widowed businessman in wartime occupied Copenhagen is about to be granted a directorship and is persuaded by his daughter Evelyn to go out and celebrate. During an air raid a series of events lead to him accidentally killing a prostitute who had accosted him. He is witness leaving the vicinity by Preben, a young man who hopes to marry Evelyn. Henriksen leaves the city to avoid the hue and cry, and briefly enjoys some days of happiness with a woman Inger who he meets. However, he abruptly leaves her and returns to Copenhagen.
He discovers Preben is mixed up with the anti-German resistance movement. He eventually also sacrifices himself in the cause, as he is already a doomed man.