Sommaren med Monika (1953)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Writers:

Per Anders Fogelström (novel)
Per Anders Fogelström (screenplay)

Release Date:

9 February 1953 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A Picture for Wide Screens and Broad Minds

Plot:

Harry Lund is a nineteen years old young man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebel seventeen...

Plot Keywords:

Summer | Love | Archipelago | Island | Female Nudity

Cast

Harriet Andersson	...	Monika
Lars Ekborg	...	Harry
Dagmar Ebbesen	...	Harry's aunt
Åke Fridell	...	Monika's father
Naemi Briese	...	Monika's mother
Åke Grönberg	...	Harry's friend at work
Sigge Fürst	...	Porcelain warehouse worker
John Harryson	...	Lelle
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gert Fylking	...	The Boy - statist

Also Known As:

Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl (USA)
Summer with Monika

Runtime:

96 min | USA:62 min (re-edited version)

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Norway:16 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (1994)

Filming Locations:

Ornö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Trivia:

Jerald Intrator was hired by U.S. distributor, Kroger Babb, to shoot a few additional nude inserts and supervise the U.S. dub and re-scoring by Les Baxter.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Horrible Honeys (1988) (V)

Soundtrack:

IN MY DREAM GARDEN

Passion and conscience

Monika is going for the Summer of her life. No longer a child she dreams of freedom and living the most of her own existence. She finds herself in the middle of a struggle between her tedious family life and work and the pungent idealistic thoughts that cross her mind. When she finds an ally- Harry, the love between them comes spontaneously and the escape from their misfortune seems possible. And then the summer comes to heat their naked skins as they reveal their bodies and souls to find the freedom they were looking for. As they feel freedom approaching they're caught by human fate. Monika is an adult now, the summer has ended. Ideals are dead and there is no freedom for mortals. Still life goes on. (More life still goes on.) No place for pessimism in this brilliant film by Ingmar Bergman. A very conscientious look into the passage to adulthood, still hopeful as it is firmly connected with the nature of beings, as it is full of passion for life as it is.