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
Maj-Britt Nilsson
Marie
Birger Malmsten
Henrik
Alf Kjellin
David Nyström
Annalisa Ericson
Kaj
Georg Funkquist
Uncle Erland
Stig Olin
Ballet instructor
Mimi Pollak
Mrs Calwagen
Renée Björling
Aunt Elisabeth
Gunnar Olsson
Priest
Julia Cæsar
Maja
John Botvid
Karl
Douglas Håge
Nisse
Torsten Lilliecrona
Ljus-Pelle
Eskil Eckert-Lundin
Orchestrator at the theatre
Carl Ström
Sandell
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.
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