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Director:
Writers:
Ingmar Bergman (writer)
Herbert Grevenius (writer)
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Release Date:
26 October 1954 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
The most INTIMATE love story ever told more
Plot:
While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail... more | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
Ingmar Bergman: 1918-2007
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lovely "little" film more (8 total)

Cast

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Maj-Britt Nilsson ... Marie
Birger Malmsten ... Henrik
Alf Kjellin ... David Nyström
Annalisa Ericson ... Kaj, ballet dancer
Georg Funkquist ... Uncle Erland
Stig Olin ... Ballet Master
Mimi Pollak ... Mrs. Calwagen, Henrik's aunt
Renée Björling ... Aunt Elisabeth
Gunnar Olsson ... The Priest
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Illicit Interlude (USA)
Summer Interlude (UK)
Summerplay (International: English title)
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Runtime:
96 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:15 | Argentina:13 | UK:PG (video rating) (1994) | UK:A (original rating)

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Soundtrack:
Swan Lake more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
lovely "little" film, 13 August 2000
Author: (loig7) from OL MUFC Eire

This is a film, quite simply, I went out to buy on video. I thought it was lovely -in its proper sense- and a nice change from the big man's subsequent, more serious projects. The film recaptures youth's giddy, carefree, brief love affairs ...and its comeuppance, its consequences in future life. Anyone who's been in love around that age will know it always remains within you, like a shameful secret, a cherished hurt ("ah, if only I had...") for a long, long time, no matter what turn things take, however successful one can become (the protagonist : a ballerina). Bergman was already showing his knowledge of human nature. ...Of course, the story (the first part of the film) doesn't meet a "happy ending". What can I say : lovely, and not least for the Swedish language !

PS-Recently, in a program on the history of exploitation (i.e. naughty films) and censorship in the US, it was revealed that quite a few scenes, showing the heroine skinny-dipping in the lake with not much on, were routinely added to this movie !!

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