When Inga Brantemo goes on a business trip to Italy, her husband Bertil gets romantically involved with Christina Lovén, whose father is a book publisher. When Inga returns, Bertil has a difficult time trying to explain who the woman the neighbors saw in the Brantemo home was. Bertil is an author and it doesn't get easier when he and his wife gets invited to Christina's father to talk business.
Acting
Eva Henning's simmering suspicion steals every scene.
Writing
Ekman's script dances between farce and genuine marital tension.
Costume
That bow tie becomes a character of its own.
Director
Hasse Ekman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hasse Ekman cast himself as the philandering lead while directing his then-wife Eva Henning as the betrayed wife. The awkwardness is palpable.
This was Ekman's commercial breakthrough, establishing his template of urbane Swedish comedies about moral failures in beautiful apartments—essentially Bergman with better furniture and fewer existential crises.
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