Inga, an unemployed actress meets a sweetheart Kim, from days long gone at a train station. Over coffee they reminisce about their romance and how Inga left Kim for a moderately successful acting career and the attractive theater director Leo Waller.
Acting
Sonja Wigert's layered portrayal of regret beneath composed glamour.
Direction
Ekman's delicate staging of emotional confessions in mundane spaces.
Director
Hasse Ekman
Sonja Wigert
Inga Dahl
Hasse Ekman
Joakim Lundell
Georg Rydeberg
Leo Waller
Karin Kavli
Vera
Georg Funkquist
Hugo Linde
Ludde Gentzel
Anderson
Torsten Hillberg
Mr Lundell (uncredited)
Gull Natorp
Mrs Lundell (uncredited)
Barbro Flodquist
Ebba (uncredited)
Gabriel Alw
Doctor (uncredited)
Willy Peters
Actor (uncredited)
Astrid Bodin
Waitress (uncredited)
Amy Aaröe
Aina (uncredited)
Märta Torén
Young Lady in the Audience at the Soiree (uncredited)
Birger Lensander
Man in the Audience at the Soiree (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ekman made this during WWII when Swedish cinema flourished while occupied neighbors fell silent — a nation processing its own complicated neutrality through intimate melodrama.
Ekman cast himself as Kim despite being the director, reportedly because he wanted to ensure the male lead matched his precise vision of wounded dignity.
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