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11 July 1961 (USA) moreTagline:
A great new Swedish hit by the maker of "Monika" and "Illicit Interlude" morePlot:
Several stories by Birgit Tengroth intertwine. In 1946, nervous ballet dancer Rut and her husband Bertil... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Bergman perfects his direction of photography and actors moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Eva Henning | ... | Rut | |
| Birger Malmsten | ... | Bertil | |
| Birgit Tengroth | ... | Viola | |
| Hasse Ekman | ... | Dr. Rosengren | |
| Mimi Nelson | ... | Valborg | |
| Bengt Eklund | ... | Raoul | |
| Gaby Stenberg | ... | Astrid | |
| Naima Wifstrand | ... | Miss Henriksson | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Verner Arpe | ... | German ticket collector | |
| Calle Flygare | ... | Priest | |
| Sven-Eric Gamble | ... | Glass worker | |
| Helge Hagerman | ... | Priest | |
| Else-Merete Heiberg | ... | Norwegian lady | |
| Estrid Hesse | ... | Patient | |
| Gunnar Nielsen | ... | Assistant doctor | |
| Sif Ruud | ... | Widow | |
| Monica Weinzierl | ... | Girl on train | |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
MonoFilming Locations:
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I thought I had seen every Bergman film ever made, so I was thrilled to stumble onto this one the week after he died. I had no trouble following the intertwining stories because I kept track of the characters' names and their relationships. So what confused many viewers seemed totally justified, especially compared to films in our post-Altmam era where more and more we see "stories" where seemingly unconnected people's lives crisscross and are junxtaposed ("Magnolia," and "Babel" to name a few).
The filming is fantastic for the time and prefigures the use of close ups in "Through a Glass Darkly." Very different from "Port of Call" just before and "To Joy" just afterwards. I found the film less bleak than "Prison," its lyrical moments prefiguring "Summer Interlude," one of my favorite early Bergmans.
The lesbianism was blatant enough for me, much more obvious than in "Young Man With A Horn," made around the same time in the US. Curiously, this section of the film helped illuminate Bergman's use of the theme in "The Silence," and this makes me want to view that film again. The fact that this is a film Bergman didn't write is intriguing, because he harmonizes his visual language to the rhythms of the screenwriter's oral one. The dialog was rather light for the seriousness of the situations. Perhaps Bergman himself would have been heavier-handed.
Lastly, there are the actresses, and here Bergman's direction of actors seems to solidify, as I find his previous films much more uneven on this score. Here the women, especially the young dancer, show real depth.
Keep in mind that this is not his first film, but still an early work, a seed that will grow into later masterpieces. Then you won't be disappointed, even after the mediocre last minutes of a work that definitely showed promise.