A Swedish Easter where the eggs are rotten and so are the family secrets.
Acting
Sif Ruud's matriarch simmers with devastating restraint.
Direction
Falck traps you in claustrophobic rooms with no escape.
Writing
Dialogue so loaded, every silence screams.
Director
Åke Falck
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Sweden's 1960s 'new wave' of social realist cinema, exposing bourgeois family hypocrisy.
Stig Järrel (Lindqvist) was already famous as the terrifying teacher in Bergman's 'Torment,' making his pathetic drunkard here a deliberate subversion.
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