A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.
Acting
Harriet Andersson's volcanic restraint — every glance is a whole novel.
Cinematography
Bleached Finnish summer light that makes everything feel exposed.
Director
Jörn Donner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Donner was a taboo-busting Finnish journalist-turned-director who helped drag Nordic cinema into frank sexuality; this was his fiction debut.
Harriet Andersson was Bergman's muse in films like 'Summer with Monika' — her presence here deliberately evokes that legacy of complicated women on islands.
FI
