A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once tried to seduce Rike. This leads to an explosive situation at the workplace.
Acting
Eva Dahlbeck's silent devastation as Marta.
Direction
Carlsen traps you in the laundry's suffocating heat.
Writing
Rumor spreads like a disease, no escape.
Director
Henning Carlsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in several countries for its 'lesbian content,' which says everything about 1965.
Carlsen adapted this from a Danish radio play, keeping the suffocating single-location tension intact.
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