Summer Interlude

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Summer Interlude

(1951)

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Ballet dancer Marie reminisce of a summer 13 years ago when she was a teenager and met Henrik on vacation in the archipelago.

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Ingmar Bergman

Director, Writer
Herbert Grevenius

Writer

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Maj-Britt Nilsson

Marie
Birger Malmsten

Henrik
Alf Kjellin

David Nyström
Annalisa Ericson

Kaj
Georg Funkquist

Uncle Erland

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For those who first discovered Ingmar Bergman's work through the internationally acclaimed masterpieces of the late 1950s, there can be a reluctance to go too far back in time before that. After all, weren't the Swedish director's earliest films journeyman efforts where he did not have much control over the filmmaking process, and he had not yet found his distinct style? I, at any rate, get a feeling like this from his 1952 picture "Summer with Monika". I was delighted however, to find that the even earlier "Summer Interlude" to be a strong film. While shot in 1950, it fully anticipates Bergman... read the rest.

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