The family of an old, loathed millionaire named Verner Vade are sick of his dictatorship, and are just waiting for him to fall over and die. When he is attacked one night and disappears, a nosey cops start to investigate. A few days later Verner comes home again, wounded, and is back to his old, angry routines. And the family have had enough.
Acting
Eva Dahlbeck's simmering rage beneath perfect 1960s composure.
Direction
Mattsson crams dread into every drawing room corner.
Cinematography
Shadowy Swedish manor that breathes like a coffin.
Director
Arne Mattsson
Eva Dahlbeck
Anna Vade
Anders Henrikson
Verner Vade
Lotte Tarp
Rita
Tor Isedal
Valter Velin
Heinz Hopf
Boris
Elsa Prawitz
Agda Ahlgren
Erik Hell
Ragnar Synnéus
Olle Andersson
DSI. Durell
Ove Tjernberg
Bengt Ahlgren
Julia Cæsar
Old lady
Elsa Ebbesen-Thornblad
Elisabeth Odén
Ms. Nilsson
Hans Bendrik
Kriminalassistent Ljungberg
Astrid Lindgren
Old lady's friend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Arne Mattsson was fresh off 'One Summer of Happiness' and used that clout to fund this nasty little chamber piece nobody asked for.
Morianna arrived as Swedish cinema pivoted from Bergman's spiritual angst toward commercial genre fare—it's basically 'Knives Out' if nobody was charming.
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