A Lesson in Love

Original title: En lektion i kärlek

19541954
13+13+
1h 36m

After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.

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Harriet Andersson and Gunnar Björnstrand in En lektion i kärlek (1954)

Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Sigge Fürst, and Åke Grönberg in En lektion i kärlek (1954)

Harriet Andersson and Olof Winnerstrand in En lektion i kärlek (1954)

Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck in En lektion i kärlek (1954)

Eva Dahlbeck and Åke Grönberg in En lektion i kärlek (1954)

Gunnar Björnstrand and John Elfström in En lektion i kärlek (1954)

After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient of his and Marianne has got herself involved with her former lover Carl-Adam, who's also David's best friend. When she travels to Copenhagen to meet Carl-Adam, David takes the same train as she does, making it look coincidental. Spending time together remembering their past and talking about their future, they come to understand each other again, which leads to a reconciliation. —Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>

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Taglines
- ...or how to win back a beautiful wife after having a love affair with an alluring woman.
Genres
Certificate
- 13+
Parents guide
- Add content advisory

Trivia
Cameo: When the doctor (Gunnar Björnstrand) enters the train a tall lean man in a beret reading a newspaper is standing in the doorway. This is no one less than Ingmar Bergman himself.

Goofs
During the conversation between David and his wife by the microscope, the shadow of the microphone can be seen on the wall for a large part of the scene.

Quotes
Nix, David's Daughter: Aren't you afraid of dying?
Professor Henrik Erneman: Not a bit.
Nix, David's Daughter: Do you believe in God?
Professor Henrik Erneman: If by God you mean life, then I do. I believe in this life and the next, in all kinds of life.
Nix, David's Daughter: But death?
Professor Henrik Erneman: Just a part of life. How dull if everything was always the same. You die and begin a new life.

Connections
Featured in Stjärnbilder (1995)

Top review

Surprisingly liberal for the 50's

This movie makes me wonder a number of things: how come Swedish acting is so bad now when it was so good back then, if liberal thoughts like those in this movie made it to the big screen back in the 50's, how come there was a revolution in the 60's, what did the general public think of this movie at the opening. In this movie having a fling is presented as good for the marriage. The girl who strongly dislikes her feminine sides, and much rather wants to be a bay is accepted. I don't really want to go into the plot much more than that, but it is definitely worth watching, I just wish they would have dropped Cupid at the end.

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