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Summer Interlude

Summer Interlude

Original title: Sommarlek

  • Genre: Drama · Romance
  • Country: Sweden
  • Runtime: 96 min

Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson) is a prima ballerina at the Stockholm Opera. During a rehearsal, she receives a package containing a diary from her first love during summer vacation thirteen years ago. As a fifteen-year-old, she spent a summer at her uncle's (Georg Funkquist) house that changed her entire life. While her domineering uncle and aunt (Renée Björling) were a necessary evil for young Marie, Henrik (Birger Malmsten) from the neighborhood became her friend and great summer love. A tragic accident, however, separated the young couple forever and Marie had to return to the city after the holidays with a broken heart to pursue her successful dancing career. Immersed in melancholy, she let her life simply drift by, but the discovered diary persuades her to return to her uncle's place once more and try to awaken from the summer dream that had in the meantime turned into an emotional coma.

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Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul."

Maj-Britt Nilsson

Maj-Britt Nilsson was a Swedish actress best known for her work with Ingmar Bergman in the early 1950s. She appeared in several of his films, including Summer Interlude (Letní sen, 1951), where she plays a young ballerina reflecting on a lost love.

Birger Malmsten

Birger Malmsten was a Swedish film actor best known for his collaborations with director Ingmar Bergman. He appeared in several of Bergman's early films, including Summer Interlude (1951), a romantic drama about love and loss. He was one of the defining faces of Swedish cinema in the 1940s and 50s.

Alf Kjellin

Alf Kjellin (1920-1988) was a Swedish actor and director. He made his name as a romantic lead in Swedish cinema of the 1940s, then built a second career in Hollywood as a TV director, working on series such as Columbo and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Annalisa Ericson

Annalisa Ericson was a Swedish actress and singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1980s. She became a household name in Sweden through light comedies and musicals, and appeared in the film Sommarflickan (Summer Dream) among many others.

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