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Brink of Life

Original title: Nära livet
  • 19581958
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 24m
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7.3/10
3.1K
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Brink of Life (1958)
Drama
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
3.1K
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    • Ingmar Bergman
    • Ingmar Bergman(uncredited)
    • Ulla Isaksson(novels "Det vänliga, värdiga" and "Det orubbliga")
  • Stars
    • Eva Dahlbeck
    • Ingrid Thulin
    • Bibi Andersson
    • Ingmar Bergman
    • Ingmar Bergman(uncredited)
    • Ulla Isaksson(novels "Det vänliga, värdiga" and "Det orubbliga")
  • Stars
    • Eva Dahlbeck
    • Ingrid Thulin
    • Bibi Andersson
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 15User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Eva Dahlbeck
    Eva Dahlbeck
    • Stina Andersson
    Ingrid Thulin
    Ingrid Thulin
    • Cecilia Ellius
    Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson
    • Hjördis Petterson
    Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
    Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
    • Nurse Brita
    Erland Josephson
    Erland Josephson
    • Anders Ellius
    Max von Sydow
    Max von Sydow
    • Harry Andersson
    Gunnar Sjöberg
    Gunnar Sjöberg
    • Dr. Nordlander
    Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz
    Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz
    • Counsellor Gran
    Inga Landgré
    Inga Landgré
    • Greta Ellius
    Kristina Adolphson
    Kristina Adolphson
    • Nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Bengt Blomgren
    Bengt Blomgren
    • Father with injured child
    • (uncredited)
    Monica Ekberg
    • Hjördis' friend
    • (uncredited)
    Maud Elfsiö
    • Maud, nurse student
    • (uncredited)
    Inga Gill
    Inga Gill
    • Mother
    • (uncredited)
    Gun Jönsson
    • Night nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Sissi Kaiser
    • Mari, nurse
    • (uncredited)
    Margaretha Krook
    Margaretha Krook
    • Dr. Larsson
    • (uncredited)
    Lars Lind
    Lars Lind
    • Dr. Thylenius
    • (uncredited)
      • Ingmar Bergman
      • Ingmar Bergman(uncredited)
      • Ulla Isaksson(novels "Det vänliga, värdiga" and "Det orubbliga") (screenplay) (uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      There is no musical score, just a few bars from a radio at 10.55 pm. The tune played is Sweden's national anthem indicating the end of the broadcast that day.
    • Quotes

      Hjördis Petterson: They think I'm horrible. I think so too. I think I'm horrible. I don't want to answer like I do, but the words just fall from my lips. I bite their heads off although I don't mean it. Then at night when I can't sleep I get so angry with myself. Everything just keeps growing and growing. And I always end up at the very bottom. Whatever I do, things just go wrong. I don't know what to do.

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    8/10
    a turning point in my film going life
    This film is one of the most important of all those that I have seen in my movie going, spanning fifty years, for it was the first Bergman film I saw in the early sixties at Auckland's only cinema for foreign films. I was struck by its humanity, by its clear eyed view of what it is to be human. Not only did it open up the whole body of Bergman's subsequent work, but I saw the themes first explored in this film deepened and enriched (with a few disappointments to be sure) throughout his career. I first learned here that more difficult and challenging films keep giving long after they have been first seen. Those who say Bergman is gloomy and depressing, all I can say is that the MOST depressing experience in the cinema EVER for me, was being persuaded to join a group of people "just for a laugh" to see the truly execrable "Sex and the City 2" Compare the insulting view of women in that piece of rubbish with this gem.
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    • Jan 19, 2013

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      • March 31, 1958 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
      • Swedish
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      • Nordisk Tonefilm
      • Inter-American Productions
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    • 1 hour 24 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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