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Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his career—isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past— Ingmar Bergman’s tenth film was a gentle drift toward true mastery. Maj-Britt Nilsson beguiles as an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student (Birger Malmsten). 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.
Original Release
10/01/1951
US Release
10/26/1954
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Maj-Britt Nilsson | Marie |
Birger Malmsten | Henrik |
Alf Kjellin | David Nyström |
Annalisa Ericson | Kaj, ballet dancer / Kaj |
Georg Funkquist | Uncle Erland |
Stig Olin | Ballet Master / Ballet instructor |
Mimi Pollak | Mrs. Calwagen, Henrik's aunt / Mrs Calwagen |
Renée Björling | Aunt Elisabeth |
Gunnar Olsson | The Priest / Priest |
Emmy Albiin | Uncle Erland's faithful old servant |
Directors
Writers
Ingmar Bergman, Herbert Grevenius
Cast
Name | Character |
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Maj-Britt Nilsson | Marie |
Birger Malmsten | Henrik |
Alf Kjellin | David Nyström |
Annalisa Ericson | Kaj, ballet dancer / Kaj |
Georg Funkquist | Uncle Erland |
Stig Olin | Ballet Master / Ballet instructor |
Mimi Pollak | Mrs. Calwagen, Henrik's aunt / Mrs Calwagen |
Renée Björling | Aunt Elisabeth |
Gunnar Olsson | The Priest / Priest |
Emmy Albiin | Uncle Erland's faithful old servant |
Gerd Andersson | Ballet dancer |
John Botvid | Karl / Karl, janitor at the |
Ernst Brunman | The captain |
Julia Cæsar | Maja / Maja, dresser |
Eskil Eckert-Lundin | Orchestrator at the theatre |
Carl-Axel Elfving | Man delievering flowers to Marie |
Douglas Håge | Nisse / Nisse, janitor at the Opera |
Torsten Lilliecrona | Ljus-Pelle |
Sten Mattsson | Sailor on the boat |
Olav Riégo | The doctor |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Allan Ekelund | Producer |