

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
Cinematography
Gunnar Fischer's luminous black-and-white island paradise.
Acting
Nilsson's face when she opens that suitcase—devastating.
Direction
Bergman's first masterpiece, the blueprint for his obsessions.

Director
Ingmar Bergman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bergman called this his first 'real' film—the moment he stopped copying others and found his voice in memory, death, and women's interior lives.
The island locations were so remote the crew had to row equipment daily; cinematographer Fischer nearly drowned saving a camera.