A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
- Director
- Writers
- Per Anders Fogelström(uncredited)
- Ingmar Bergman(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe film's then ground-breaking nudity led to its American distributor snapping up the film sight unseen and marketing it along the lines of a Russ Meyer picture. It remains the most widely seen Ingmar Bergman film in the US.
- Quotes
Monika Eriksson: Spring is here. Did you notice?
Harry Lund: Yes.
Monika Eriksson: One shouldn't work on a day like this.
Harry Lund: No, it's really crazy.
Monika Eriksson: Let's go away and never come back. We'll see the whole wide world. Are you game?
Harry Lund: Sure, let's go.
- Alternate versionsFirst US release, marketed for the drive in theater circuit, ran only 62 minutes, was dubbed, and featured a different score by jazz musician Les Baxter.
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Une vague nouvelle (1999)
- SoundtracksAN DER SCHOENEN BLAUEN DONAU
Music by Johann Strauss
Featured review
A classic in a pristine new print from Janus
Ingmar Bergman's Monika (Summer with Monika) (1953) is the story of two Stockholm teenagers, stock boy Harry (Lars Ekborg) and voluptuous, impulsive Monika (Harriet Andersson), who meet and fall in love and run away for a summer on a motorboat on the Stockholm archipelago escaping from work and all responsibility. Monika becomes pregnant and they return to the city and marry but things turn bad. This first powerful feature by the Swedish master is simple and sweet but nonetheless rich in emotional wrenching events. The film, which depicts teenage unwed sex, was shockingly sensual for its time. In 2006 the intensity of Harriet Andersson's uninhibited performance is still impressive and this story is just as heartbreaking as it was over half a century ago.
Presented as part of the Janus Films sidebar of the 2006 New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in another gorgeous pristine-looking new print with a rich black and white tonal range that may look better than the original did.
Presented as part of the Janus Films sidebar of the 2006 New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in another gorgeous pristine-looking new print with a rich black and white tonal range that may look better than the original did.
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- Chris Knipp
- Sep 30, 2006
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Box office
- Budget
- SEK 484,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $14,316
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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