1942 · drama · fantasy · religious
The Road to Heaven
Directed by Alf Sjöberg1h 46m1942
"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
Our read: The Road to Heaven (1942) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive drama · fantasy · religious entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- inventive
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