As his 60th birthday approaches, Jacob grows concerned that none of his sons is capable of running his company.
Acting
Eklund's patriarch simmers with magnificent disappointment.
Direction
Ekman stages dinner-table warfare like psychological combat.
Writing
Dialogue cuts with the precision of a will-reading.
Director
Hasse Ekman
Ernst Eklund
Jacob Cotten
Elsa Carlsson
Agnes Cotten
Sture Lagerwall
Pierre Cotten
Eva Henning
Victoria "Vica" Cotten
Sven Lindberg
Ivar Cotten
Hasse Ekman
Hugo Stenbrott
Birger Malmsten
Rex Lundgren
Hilda Borgström
Alberta
Jan Molander
Sixten
Barbro Flodquist
Kate
Ragnar Arvedson
Manager
Tord Stål
Doctor
Nina Scenna
Hulda
Helga Brofeldt
Woman at the entrance to the dinner party
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ekman made this during his commercial peak, channeling Bergman-before-Bergman family dysfunction while Swedish cinema was still finding its international voice.
Ekman cast himself as the outsider observer Hugo, essentially inserting himself as the audience's cynical surrogate at his own banquet.
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