Summer with Monika [blu-ray] = Sommaren med Monika / Janus Films ; Svensk Filmindustri visar ; manuskript, Per Anders Fogelström ; regi, Ingmar Bergman.
Format:
[blu-ray] =
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese, Åke Grönberg, Sigge Fürst, John Harryson. Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. Special features: introduction by Ingmar Bergman ; new interview with actress Harriet Andersson by film scholar Peter Cowie ; Images from the playground (documentary by Stig Björkman) ; interview with film scholar Eric Schaefer about Kroger Babb and his distribution of Monika, the story of a bad girl! as an exploitation film; trailer.
Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Monika and nineteen-year-old Harry Lund meet in a café. They spend a happy summer together, and soon Monika discovers that she is pregnant. They marry, but Monika is bored with taking care of the baby and the responsibilities of married life. She begins an affair with a former lover and their marriage falls apart.
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