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A Woman's Face (Swedish: En kvinnas ansikte) is a 1938 Swedish drama film directed by Gustaf Molander, based on the play Il était une fois... by Francis de Croisset. The cast includes Ingrid Bergman in the lead as a woman criminal with a disfigured face.
A Woman's Face: Directed by Gustaf Molander. With Ingrid Bergman, Tore Svennberg, Anders Henrikson, Georg Rydeberg. An embittered woman, leader of a criminal gang, has a change of heart.
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- Drama
- Gustaf Molander
- 1939-09-08
Apr 5, 2021 · In this dramatic thriller, Ingrid Bergman takes on an uncharacteristically vicious role as Anna, a bitter, nefarious blackmailer with a disfigured face. Gustaf Molander directs, meticulously hiding and revealing Bergman’s features as necessary.
- 101 min
Jan 29, 2019 · A Woman's Face may be the most challenging role in Ingrid Bergman's pre-American career. It circumvents our ideas of what an 'Ingrid Bergman' type is. She is the glamorous beauty or initially a sympathetic figure but an evil woman.
An unpleasant, bitter woman with a hideous scar on her face blackmails illicit lovers as a form of revenge for a happiness she doesn't know. She even plots to murder a child for his inheritance. But after plastic surgery , she becomes a nicer person and doubts her plan.
When she was a child, Anna Holm, burned her face. This destroyed her looks, and she has become a mean and bitter woman. She and her 'friends' are black-mailers. One of the victims pay her by letting a plastic surgeon, doctor Wegert, make her beautiful again. Anna becomes a new person and leaves the others.