Summer Interlude

Summer Interlude

1951 · 96 min · SV · 7.4 (180 votes)
Dir. Ingmar Bergman · Starring Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin, Annalisa Ericson, Georg Funkquist, Stig Olin · Music Erik Nordgren

“An intimate love story—frank, fresh, and delightful in its telling!”

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During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

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A tender, bittersweet remembrance of a passionate summer romance. It feels like flipping through old photographs, tinged with the ache of what was and can never be again. A beautiful, melancholic meditation on love and time.

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