The Dove (1968 film)

The Dove (De Düva[lower-alpha 1]) is a 1968 Oscar-nominated American short film that parodies the films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.[3] The film borrows heavily from the plot lines of some of Bergman's most famous films. There is a journey by car back to the location of childhood memories as in Wild Strawberries. The main characters meet with the shrouded figure of Death as in The Seventh Seal. The film was directed by George Coe and Anthony Lover. Madeline Kahn made her first film appearance, in a supporting role.[4] The dialogue and voice-over narration are spoken mostly in a heavily accented fictional language, which is mostly English made to sound like Swedish, with many of the nouns ending in "ska". (For example, the subtitled word "eventually" is spoken in dialogue as "sooner or lateska".) There are also a smattering of Yiddish words.[5] The subtitles, which often do not literally match the dialogue, add to the humor.[6]

The film often was shown in repertory film houses as a short feature when Bergman films were on the bill that audiences frequently did not realize that the short was a comedy until individuals started laughing when they began to understand the fake Swedish.[7]