Maj-Britt Nilsson

  • Ingmar Bergman – Sommarlek AKA Summer Interlude (1951) (HD)

    1951-1960DramaIngmar BergmanRomanceSweden

    A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Sommarlek AKA Summer Interlude (1951)

    Drama1951-1960ArthouseIngmar BergmanSweden

    While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Marie receives a diary through the mail. She travels by ferry to an island nearby Stockholm, where she recalls her first love Henrik. Thirteen years ago, while traveling to spend her summer vacation with her aunt Elisabeth and her uncle Erland, Marie meets Henrik in the ferry and sooner they fall in love for each other. They spend summer vacation together when a tragedy separates them and Marie builds a wall affecting her sentimental life.Read More »

  • Ingmar Bergman – Kvinnors väntan AKA Waiting Women (1952)

    1951-1960ComedyDramaIngmar BergmanSweden



    While at a summerhouse, awaiting their husbands’ return, a group of sisters-in-law recount stories from their respective marriages. Rakel (Anita Björk) tells of receiving a visit from a former lover (Jarl Kulle); Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson) of agreeing to marry a painter (Birger Malmsten) only after having his child; and Karin (Eva Dahlbeck) of being stuck with her husband (Gunnar Björnstrand) in an elevator, where they talk intimately for the first time in years. Making dexterous use of flashbacks, the engaging Waiting Women is a veritable seedbed of Bergman themes, ranging from aspiring young love to the fear of loneliness, with the finale a masterpiece of chamber comedy.Read More »

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