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Summer Interlude (Swedish: Sommarlek), originally titled Illicit Interlude in the United States, is a 1951 Swedish drama film co-written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film opened to highly positive reviews from critics.
Summer Interlude: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson. A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
Her memories of the sunny, rocky shores of Stockholm’s outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present at the theater where she performs. A film that the director considered a creative turning point, Summer Interlude is a reverie about life and death that unites Bergman’s love of theater and cinema.
“Summer Interlude” marks the onset of Ingmar Bergman dancing with his memories of the past, rather than fleeing from their looming shadows. The piece is told in piecemeal flashback, as an ageing ballerina reflects on one summer of her younger years.
Jan 10, 2022 · Directed by Ingmar BergmanScreenplay by Ingmar Bergman Herbert GreveniusBased on "Mari" by Ingmar BergmanProdu...
May 29, 2012 · Like many Bergman films, Summer Interlude focuses on a struggle between divergent attitudes toward life. Marie finds herself caught between the diffidence of Henrik, the malevolent sophistication of her uncle Erland, and the offhandedness of David, the journalist with whom she finally agrees to live.
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.
