The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or not of the child one of the maids is expecting.
Acting
Rydeberg's volcanic Captain dominates every frame he's in.
Direction
Sjöberg's theatrical blocking turns rooms into prisons.
Writing
Strindberg's dialogue cuts like broken glass.
Director
Alf Sjöberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sjöberg was Bergman's mentor; this 1969 adaptation came as Swedish cinema was exploding globally.
Strindberg wrote this in 1887 as a direct attack on Ibsen's more optimistic feminism — he wanted to show how women could destroy men too.
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