A holy con man infiltrates a Swedish family and nobody can agree if he's fake—except the audience, who gets the joke immediately.
The religious hypocrite Tartuffe parasites on a bourgeois family. He is looking for the daughter's hand and the family's property and is also trying to seduce the young wife.
Acting
Gösta Ekman's slippery charisma as the titular fraud
Writing
Molière's 1664 dialogue still slicing through modern pretension
Production
Intimate Swedish TV staging that feels like front-row theater
Director
Hans Dahlin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Molière originally wrote Tartuffe to mock the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement, a secret Catholic society infiltrating French high society—Louis XIV banned it for five years.
This 1966 Swedish television adaptation arrived during peak welfare state confidence, making its critique of middle-class gullibility land differently than in Molière's absolutist France.
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