Summer Interlude (Criterion Collection)

Touching on many of the themes that would define the rest of his legendary career-isolation, performance, the inescapability of the past- the tenth film by Ingmar Bergman (THE SEVENTH SEAL) was a gentle sway toward true mastery. In one of the directors great early female roles, Maj-Britt Nilsson (TO JOY) beguiles as Marie, an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student (THIRSTS Birger Malmsten). Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works. A film that the director considered a creative turning point, SUMMER INTERLUDE is a reverie on life and death that bridges the gap between Bergman's past and future, theater and cinema.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Allan Ekelund
Actor: Alf Kjellin
Actor: Maj-Britt Nilsson
Actor: Birger Malmsten
Actor: Christopher Kent
Actor: Annalisa Ericson
Actor: Georg Funkquist
Actor: Renee Bjorling
Actor: Carl Stroem
Actor: Carl-Axel Elfving
Actor: Douglas Håge
Actor: Ernst Brunman
Actor: Gunnar Olsson
Actor: John Botvid
Actor: Julia Caesar
Actor: Marianne Schuler
Actor: May Britt
Actor: Olaf Riego
Actor: Renée Björling
Actor: Torsten Lilliecrona
Actor: Stig Olin
Actor: Mimi Pollak