Ingmar Bergman wrote this subject under the title ¨The trumpet player and Our Lord.¨ In Eva, he thus introduced his recurrent theme of death and resurrection. Temptation is also present, (actually the film's international title was ¨Eva, the woman and the temptation¨) but the drama is really about expulsion from paradise. "The more I savored the world of my childhood, the more I lost the sense of life now," says narrator and protagonist Bo Fredriksson, a licensed soldier on the train, returning home. The atmosphere, the mood and the extravagance were courtesy of the more experienced, elderly director Gustav Molander, who fully met the task of putting order and discipline into the passion, the inspiration and the chaos.
