De Düva: The Dove (1968)
Directed by George Coe, Anthony Lover
Runtime: 15 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062906/
Academy review: http://theoscarsite.com/pictures1968/dove.htm
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 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 Sundqvist, 76, is being driven to a lecture at the university, when dove droppings splatter the car's windshield. Detouring at his uncle's old house, his mind wanders back to his youth, when Death came to a family picnic to claim his sister, Inga. Knowing that Death is a gambler, Viktor has Inga challenge Death to a single-point game of badminton for her life. While they are playing, a dove flies above, soiling Death's cape, and distracting him enough to miss the birdie. Having won the game, Inga is free, and she and Viktor run off for a swim in the lake.
While gainfully preoccupied in an outhouse, Viktor Sundqvist, Nobel Prize winner, reminisces about his lost youth, his beautiful sister whom he and a girlfriend simultaneously loved too passionately, their attempt to outwit a slightly Jewish Angel of Death in a game of badminton, their nude swim in a sylvan lake and their encounters with a per-sistently defecating dove. The whole film is a beautifully achieved satire of Swedish films in general and Bergman's in particular. The language is fake Swedish-English-cum-Yiddish (almost every word ends with "sk") and is accompanied by full English subtitles.
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De.Duva.poopface.(aka.The.Dove.poopface,.Swedish-English,.Coe.&.Lover,1968).avi 
(still "poopface" tag, ovendick is the only full source.)
