Dove (1968)
- Director(s):
- George Coe, Anthony Lover, (more)
Synopsis of Dove
To catalog the visual and verbal gags in The Dove would be to ruin this delightful short-subject spoof for the uninitiated viewer. Suffice to say that this "winner of the Golden Escargot Award" (and Oscar nominee) is a dead-on satire of Ingmar Bergman movies in general and Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal in particular. An aging professor named Viktor Sundqvist muses on his past while making a crucial stop at a roadside outhouse (the first of several gags involving waste products). He remembers that particular summer in his youth when he and his beloved Inga were forced into a confrontation -- and a badminton game -- with Mr. Death. The film's dialogue is spoken in hilarious faux Swedish, with English-language subtitles "translating" the Scandinavian double-talk. (One character offers another a cigar, asking "Phalliken sym-bol?") Madeline Kahn makes a brief appearance as a woman in love with a cow. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Dove
- Tom Stone - Gustav
- Sidney Davis - Death
- Peter Turgeon - Uncle Anders
- George Coe - Viktor
- Madeline Kahn - Sigfrid
- Director(s):
- George Coe, Anthony Lover
- Writer(s):
- Sidney Davis
- Producer(s):
- Anthony Lover, George Coe, Sidney Davis
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