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Summer with Monika SUMMER WITH MONIKA
(1953)


A tender yet unsentimental account of a love affair that turns sour. Harriet Andersson gives a precociously assured performance as a wild, feckless girl from Stockholm's poorer quarter who falls in love with a 19-year-old youth. During an idyllic motor-boat holiday among the islands of the Stockholm archipelago, the girl becomes pregnant and the couple, forced to marry, set up home in a tiny, cramped flat. Very soon, love gives way to distrust and hostility, and they agree to part. Bergman's sympathetic eye and Gunnar Fischer's atmospheric photography invest the locations with a poetic significance, the light and open spaces of the holiday islands contrasted tellingly with the dark claustrophobia of the city, where the flame of the couple's love is slowly extinguished by the lack of air. (Nigel Floyd, Time Out)

Original title: Sommaren med Monika ["Summer with Monika"]
Other title: Monika
Production: Svensk Filmindustri
Distribution: Svensk Filmindustri
Premiere: 9 February 1953 (Spegeln, Stockholm)
Running time: 96 minutes
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Language: Swedish
Filmed: on location near the island of �rno in the Stockholm archipelago, and at R�sunda Studios; from 22 July to 6 October 1952.

CAST
Monika: Harriet Andersson
Harry: Lars Ekborg
Lelle: John Harryson
Harry's father: Georg Skarstedt
Harry's aunt: Dagmar Ebbesen
Monika's father: �ke Fridell
Monika's mother: Naemi Briese
Foreman: �ke Gr�nberg
Forsberg: G�sta Eriksson
Forsberg's accountant: G�sta Gustafsson

CREDITS
Producer: Allan Ekelund
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman and Per Anders Fogelstr�m, based on Fogelstr�m's novel
Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer
Art Direction: P.A. Lundgren
Music: Erik Nordgren, Eskil Eckert-Lundin and Walle S�derlund
Editor: Tage Holmberg, G�sta Lewin



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