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De Düva: The Dove

  • 1968
  • 15m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
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De Düva: The Dove (1968)
ParodyComedyShort

This short film is a parody of some of Ingmar Bergman's best known films, including Wild Strawberries (Smultronstaellet) and The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet). The dialog, seemingly in ... Read allThis short film is a parody of some of Ingmar Bergman's best known films, including Wild Strawberries (Smultronstaellet) and The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet). The dialog, seemingly in Swedish, is actually a Swedish-accented fictional language based on English, German, Latin... Read allThis short film is a parody of some of Ingmar Bergman's best known films, including Wild Strawberries (Smultronstaellet) and The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet). The dialog, seemingly in Swedish, is actually a Swedish-accented fictional language based on English, German, Latin, and Swedish, with most nouns ending in "ska". The principal character, Professor Viktor ... Read all

  • Directors
    • George Coe
    • Anthony Lover
  • Writer
    • Sidney Davis
  • Stars
    • Pamela Burrell
    • George Coe
    • Sidney Davis
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    938
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • George Coe
      • Anthony Lover
    • Writer
      • Sidney Davis
    • Stars
      • Pamela Burrell
      • George Coe
      • Sidney Davis
    • 28User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 nominations total

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    Pamela Burrell
    • Inga
    George Coe
    George Coe
    • Viktor
    Sidney Davis
    • Death
    • (as Sid Davis)
    Madeline Kahn
    Madeline Kahn
    • Sigfrid
    Stan Rubinstein
    • Olin
    Tom Stone
    • Gustav
    Peter Turgeon
    Peter Turgeon
    • Uncle Anders
    David Zirlin
    • Chauffeur
    • Directors
      • George Coe
      • Anthony Lover
    • Writer
      • Sidney Davis
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    10nuntukamen

    Best Short Film Ever

    This film first smashed its way into film goers mass consciousness in the late Sixties when it was tagged unannounced into art houses all over the country. I caught it at the Art Theatre in Akron, Ohio, as a prelude to the main feature, Putney Swope(also recommended for anyone who liked this). Or maybe it preceded Greetings, same location with direction by Brian De Palma and starring Robert Deniro in their first movie, another highly recommended film of frivolous fun. At any rate, it had to be one of the two back in those Ripple years. The Dove even has a young Madaline Kahn and set the stage for the advent of Mel Brooks and Woody Allen to entertain us with feature length nonsense that makes a sabered point. If you think Bill and Ted's wrestling with Death was original and funny, here, in fact, is where the entire battle gestated from. No point outlining the plot and purpose, others have done so very well here, but I do have to urge anyone and everyone to catch this under whatever opportunities they have. Beyond Classic.
    roarshock

    One of the great shorts.

    Assuming you can find a copy, this is one of the greatest ambush films of all time. Have a few of your movie fanatic friends over for some serious film viewing, and sometime that evening, without warning, start playing "The Dove". It is so well done that when I first saw it I took it seriously... that is until I realized that the word "water" in the subtitles was translating a "Swedish" word pronounced "H2Oska". If you play it right, you can wait and see how long it takes for your friends to catch on.
    LarryMac

    Hilarious short satire of foreign films.

    I saw this movie almost thirty years ago, and the fact that I've been looking for a copy ever since attests to my enthusiastic recommendation. If you are in to foreign films, especially the heavily symbolic Swedish films of the late 50's (Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" for example), you will enjoy every one of the fifteen minutes running time and wish for more. The film is a small masterpiece of satire, spoofing in a kind of macaronic English-Swedish the overt symbolism characteristic of the time and genre. Finding a tape anywhere of this film is to search for the proverbial needle, but I urge you to make every effort to find it and enjoy it. You will be well rewarded for you
    duvv

    Don't forget the Yiddish

    This short film would show up in Manhattan movie theaters every so often for ten years or more. We remember it so well because we treasured our first viewings of it, and were so flummoxed by trying to describe it to friends, that the subsequent viewings were often spent compiling mental notes. As the 70s wore on and Madeline Kahn's star brightly ascended, her big joke -- "phallica symbole?" -- became widely quoted. To be able to quote that line got used more than once to fake having actually seen this cool in-joke of cinemagoers. The more of us who saw it, the more we tormented our virgin friends over their having missed it yet again, while arming them with more details to fake their way through chuckling with the beaming cocktailers rather than in envy of them.

    Kind of like an initiation rite, because the more pretentious the moviegoer -- those cocktailing cognoscenti -- the more humiliating the first viewing must have been, especially if one were not extra-attentive to the gibberishy narration/dialogue track (overstuffed with nature sounds, to further the verisimilitude).

    Much as with actual Swedish, the first jokes detected were often squelched as inappropriate thoughts, distant Germanic echoes from a related tongue, so those who believed they were watching a meditation on memory had the hardest time catching on that they'd been slipped an unannounced comic short. Only well into the 70s did newspaper ads start billing when De Düva (The Dove) would be shown.

    Even after realizing it's a comedy, what we took to be Swedishy gibberish revealed itself to be a pastiche of Scandinavianized English, Yiddishisms, and silly dirty jokes.

    The climactic incest scene was the hottest screen action I'd ever seen to that point, satirizing the brief era when Swedish features showed more skin than US-released ones.
    10philtrau-2

    I laughed till I cried

    I saw this when it came out in '68, and like everyone else in the theater I initially assumed it was a legitimate Bergman film. The look and feel of the picture was perfect, down to the lingering silences, pregnant with meaning. Or so we thought. About two minutes into it, I began to hear a few people giggling, then a few more as slowly it dawned on the audience that this wasn't the Master Himself after all. Soon everyone was roaring, and by the time it was over most of us were ruined for the feature film (No, I have no idea what it was). You don't have to be familiar with Bergman to enjoy this, but it helps. This is an inspired masterpiece that I rate up there with such untouchable classics as "Bambi Meets Godzilla". When is someone going to put these old shorts on video or DVD? The world could use the laughter these days.

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    • Trivia
      Film debut of Madeline Kahn.
    • Goofs
      (at around 8 mins) The dove's droppings on Viktor's face change from first being mainly on his forehead to, after a camera cut, being mostly on his cheek.
    • Quotes

      Sigfrid: [proffering cigar to Inga, in parody Swedish] Phalliken symbolsk?

    • Connections
      Spoofs Sourires d'une nuit d'été (1955)

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 14, 1968 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Dove
    • Production companies
      • Audio 300
      • Coe-Davis Ltd.
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    • Runtime
      • 15m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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