Directed by:
Ingmar BergmanScreenplay:
Ingmar BergmanCinematography:
Sven NykvistCast:
Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg, Jörgen Lindström, Eduardo Gutiérrez, Olof Widgren, Birger Lensander, Karl-Arne Bergman (more)VOD (1)
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Two Swedish women and a ten-year-old boy, Johan, are returning from a holiday, and break their journey in a foreign city, Timoka, where the language is incomprehensible. In a hotel suite it becomes obvious that Ester and Anna are at odds with each other. Ester is an intellectual, a translator suffering from some strange lung disease that almost causes her to suffocate during her spasms. Anna is the opposite, sensual, indolent, and sexually frustrated because she finds the lesbian relationship with her partner ever more repugnant and meaningless. After seeing a couple copulate vigorously in a dimly-lit cabaret, she seduces the waiter from a nearby café. Later, after a quarrel, Ester is forced to watch a repetition of this love-play, and the film ends with Anna´s leaving Timoka with her son Johan while Ester sinks into a presumably fatal coma. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ingrid Thulin
Sweden
Best movies:
Wild Strawberries (1957)
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The Silence (1963)
Gunnel Lindblom
Sweden
Best movies:
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Birger Malmsten
Sweden
Best movies:
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Håkan Jahnberg
Sweden
Best movies:
The Silence (1963)
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Jörgen Lindström
Sweden
Best movies:
Persona (1966)
The Silence (1963)
Night Games (1966)
Eduardo Gutiérrez
Best movies:
The Silence (1963)
Olof Widgren
Sweden
Best movies:
The Silence (1963)
Walpurgis Night (1935)
Birger Lensander
Sweden
Best movies:
The Silence (1963)
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils (1962)
Here Is Your Life (1966)
Karl-Arne Bergman
Sweden
Best movies:
Shame (1968)
The Silence (1963)
Carl Andersson
Best movies:
The Silence (1963)
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils (1962)
Thirst (1949)
Olof Huddén
Sweden
Best movies:
The Silence (1963)