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Crisis 12 rating

Ingmar Bergman’s intriguing directorial debut, in which a young woman is torn between the traditional rural life of her family and the bright lights of the big city.

Drama 1945 93 mins

Director: Ingmar Bergman

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Overview

Bergman’s directorial debut, adapted from a play, is a melodrama about a young woman torn between her loving foster mother and her hitherto neglectful birth mother, who promises a more exciting life in the city. In contrast to the more schematic aspects of the plot, the scenes involving (soon-to-be Bergman regular) Olin as a diabolical but troubled gigolo presage the dark complexities to come in the great director's later works.

Director
Ingmar Bergman
Featuring
Dagny LindInga LandgréMarianne LöfgrenStig Olin
Genres
Drama
Certificate
12Contains moderate violence references
Released
1945
Country
Sweden
Language
Swedish with English subtitles