A loving couple on an escapade, ending in a hotel room in the underworld. When the floor waiter shows up, the woman feel she has seen him before. And suddenly she discovers who he is.
Acting
Harriet Andersson's silent horror is devastating.
Direction
Lagerkvist turns 19 minutes into eternity.
Production
The hotel-from-hell set design is claustrophobic perfection.
Director
Bengt Lagerkvist
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ernst-Hugo Järegård later became famous for his role in Lars von Trier's 'The Kingdom'—apparently Sweden's go-to guy for unsettling authority figures.
Based on a short story by Swedish Nobel laureate Pär Lagerkvist, whose work obsessively explored guilt, faith, and the machinery of divine judgment.
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