There are many films about the devil. For example "Faust" (1927, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau), "The devil and Daniel Webster" (1941, William Dieterle), "La beauté du diable" (1950, Rene Clair, another adaptation of the Faust story) and from a more recent date "The devils advocate" (1997, Taylor Hackford).
In these films the devil promises different things (youth, girls, money, success), but in the end he manages to corrupt his victims.
In "The devil's eye" however it is the mortal human who wins. When a young woman is about to enter marriage as a virgin, the devil begrudges heaven the success of a pure wedding. Don Juan is sent to earth to seduce the woman before she marries. Don Juan doesn't succeed. On the contrary he returns to hell madly in love.
The story has some originality, but the film proves above all that Bergman and comedy is not a happy combination. In the same year Bergman made another movie about a virging who's virginity's is threatened, but this time not by a smooth operator like Don Juan but by some rough vagabonds ("The virgin spring"). This film is more down to earth, rough, shocking and ... interesting.
In these films the devil promises different things (youth, girls, money, success), but in the end he manages to corrupt his victims.
In "The devil's eye" however it is the mortal human who wins. When a young woman is about to enter marriage as a virgin, the devil begrudges heaven the success of a pure wedding. Don Juan is sent to earth to seduce the woman before she marries. Don Juan doesn't succeed. On the contrary he returns to hell madly in love.
The story has some originality, but the film proves above all that Bergman and comedy is not a happy combination. In the same year Bergman made another movie about a virging who's virginity's is threatened, but this time not by a smooth operator like Don Juan but by some rough vagabonds ("The virgin spring"). This film is more down to earth, rough, shocking and ... interesting.