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Director: Ingmar Bergman Writers: Herbert Grevenius, Birgit Tengroth
Runtime: 83
Color: Black and White
![]() | Eva Henning | Rut |
![]() | Birger Malmsten | Bertil |
![]() | Birgit Tengroth | Viola |
![]() | Hasse Ekman | Dr. Rosengren |
![]() | Mimi Nelson | Valborg |
![]() | Bengt Eklund | Raoul |
![]() | Gaby Stenberg | Astrid |
![]() | Naima Wifstrand | Miss Henriksson |
![]() | Verner Arpe | German ticket collector |
![]() | Calle Flygare | Priest |
![]() | Sven-Eric Gamble | Glass worker |
![]() | Helge Hagerman | Priest |
![]() | Else-Merete Heiberg | Norwegian lady |
![]() | Estrid Hesse | Patient |
![]() | Gunnar Nielsen (I) | Assistant doctor |
![]() | Sif Ruud | Widow |
![]() | Monica Weinzierl | Girl on train |
![]() | Inga-Lill Åhström | Piano player (uncredited) |
![]() | Carl Andersson (I) | Man on train (uncredited) |
![]() | Wiktor Andersson | Doorkeeper (uncredited) |
| Ingmar Bergman | Train passenger (uncredited) | |
![]() | Britta Brunius | Nurse (uncredited) |
![]() | Inga Gill | Lady at hotel (uncredited) |
![]() | Herman Greid | Newspaper deliverer (uncredited) |
![]() | Laila Jokimo | Ballet girl (uncredited) |
![]() | Oscar Rosander | Man at hotel (uncredited) |
![]() | Öllegård Wellton | Ballet girl (uncredited) |
![]() | Peter Winner | Policeman (uncredited) |
Several stories by Birgit Tengroth intertwine. In 1946, nervous ballet dancer Rut and her husband Bertil are returning to Sweden from his scholarship tour around Italy. In a Basle hotel room and on a train they quarrel, give food through the window to starving Germans, overhear wisdoms about marriage by Swedish clergymen returning from a conference, and finally make up. In flashbacks, Rut reminisces her romance with middle-aged officer Raoul, her subsequent abortion, and her ballet career. In a seemingly separate episode set in quiet Stockholm during Midsummer, middle-aged widow Viola is harassed first by a psychiatrist, Dr. Rosengren, and then by a lesbian old school-friend Valborg, with tragic consequences.




















