Kvinnors väntan (1952)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Writers:

Ingmar Bergman (writer)
Gun Grut (story)

Release Date:

11 July 1961 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home...

Plot Keywords:

Women | Marital Strife | Pregnancy | Unhappiness | Human Relationship

Cast

Anita Björk	...	Rakel
Eva Dahlbeck	...	Karin
Maj-Britt Nilsson	...	Marta
Birger Malmsten	...	Martin Lobelius
Gunnar Björnstrand	...	Fredrik Lobelius
Karl-Arne Holmsten	...	Eugen Lobelius
Jarl Kulle	...	Kaj
Aino Taube	...	Annette (as Aino Taube-Henrikson)
Håkan Westergren	...	Paul Lobelius
Gerd Andersson	...	Maj
Björn Bjelfvenstam	...	Henrik Lobelius (as Björn Bjelvenstam)

Also Known As:

Secrets of Women
Waiting Women

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish | German

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (video rating) (2005) (uncut) | UK:X (original rating) (cut)

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Movie Connections:

Featured in Stjärnbilder (1995)

Gorgeous

A very beautiful film by master Ingmar Bergman. Four women, all sisters-in-law, await their husbands in a house on an island. They converse, and soon begin to tell each other the big stories of their lives. The first tells how she had an affair with her teenage sweetheart and how her husband reacts. The second tells of how she was seduced and became pregnant. And the third tells about how she once got her husband to admit his philandering when they were stuck in an elevator. Meanwhile, in the framing episode, a younger sister of one of the women has fallen in love with the fourth brother. The first and third stories are a little cliched, especially the elevator sequence, but they're still quite great. Being trapped in an elevator is a nice, easy, and overused way for two characters to solve problems, but the dialogue between Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck is so excellent that it works out wondefully. The heart of the film is in the second story. It's so simple and well-done, so utterly beautiful in its conception and execution. It is, of course, a flashback, like the other two stories, but the story itself is also told in flashbacks. It works far better than I would have ever guessed. Secrets of Women is an underrated Bergman film, a must-see for any fan. 9/10.