No Way Back (1947 film)

98 minutesCountrySwedenLanguageSwedish

No Way Back (Swedish: Ingen väg tillbaka) is a 1947 Swedish drama film directed by and starring Edvin Adolphson and also featuring Anita Björk, Olof Bergström and Gaby Stenberg.^[1] It was shot at the Centrumateljéerna Studios in Stockholm. The film's sets were designed by the art director Arthur Spjuth.

Hugo Henriksen, a widowed businessman in wartime occupied Copenhagen is about to be granted a directorship and is persuaded by his daughter Evelyn to go out and celebrate. During an air raid a series of events lead to him accidentally killing a prostitute who had accosted him. He is witness leaving the vicinity by Preben, a young man who hopes to marry Evelyn. Henriksen leaves the city to avoid the hue and cry, and briefly enjoys some days of happiness with a woman Inger who he meets. However, he abruptly leaves her and returns to Copenhagen.

He discovers Preben is mixed up with the anti-German resistance movement. He eventually also sacrifices himself in the cause, as he is already a doomed man.

• Edvin Adolphson as Hugo Henriksen
• Anita Björk as Evelyn
• Olof Bergström as Preben
• Gaby Stenberg as Inger
• Naemi Briese as Rosa
• Arnold Sjöstrand as Rasmussen
• Hugo Björne as Jespeersen
• Julie Bernby as Prostitute
• Nancy Dalunde as Prostitute
• Carl Hagman as Beer café host
• Aurore Palmgren as Mrs. Jörgensen
• Willy Peters as Benito

• Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.

• No Way Back at IMDb