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A couple traveling across war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer's scarred past. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, this film shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nordgren, Erik (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Svensk filmindustri, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007 (Director), Hagerman, Helge, 1910-1995 (Producer), Grevenius, Herbert, 1901-1993 (Screenwriter), Tengroth, Birgit, 1915-1983, Henning, Eva, 1920- (Actor), Malmsten, Birger, 1920-1991 (Actor), Ekman, Hasse (Actor), Nelson, Mimi, 1922-1999 (Actor), Eklund, Bengt, 1925-1998 (Actor), Stenberg, Gaby (Actor), Wifstrand, Naima (Actor)
Format: Video DVD
Language:Swedish
Language Notes:In Swedish with optional English subtitles.
Published: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
Series:Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Early Bergman.
Subjects:
Tengroth, Birgit, > 1915-1983 > Film adaptations.
Spouses > Drama.
Travel > Drama.
Man-woman relationships > Drama.
Memory > Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Melodrama.
Film adaptations.
Motion pictures, Swiss.
Adaptation > Feature.
Description
Summary:A couple traveling across war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer's scarred past. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, this film shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation.
Item Description:From the novel Törst by Birgit Tengroth.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1949.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.; NTSC.
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Gunnar Fischer ; editor, Oscar Rosander ; music, Erik Nordgren ; set designer, Nils Svenwall ; producer, Helge Hagerman.
ISBN:193412138X (disc)
9781934121382 (disc)
1934121347 (set)
9781934121344 (set)