Sinopsis
Fiction. Three women, each expecting a child in a hospital in 1915, recall the key events in their lives. The women come from different social classes and have disparate views about the impending births. The middle-class woman married a servant of a wealthy family. She doesn’t love her husband, nor does she care much about her child, whom she conceived out of spite. The baby is stillborn, and the woman sheds nearly a tear. The second woman became wild and sexually irresponsible after she was seduced as a young woman by a much older man. Dividing her time between modeling and robbery, the woman ends up sleeping with the son of the family the middle-class woman’s husband works for. The son is willing to support his bastard and provides the wild woman a husband: his homosexual friend and pretend the child is his. She agrees. The third woman is introverted. As a youth, she had a short-lived lesbian affair in school. She then fell in love with an archaeologist who impregnated her. He refuses to acknowledge the child as his. This enrages the woman who joins a feminist movement and dedicates her life to removing the stigma of having babies out of wedlock.
Swedish stage and screen actress, film director, and author who made her most important contribution to Swedish cinema as an advocate of women’s rights and a critic of contemporary society. Acted in films in Sweden, England, and America before settling in England; after a commendable career on stage and screen with major roles in plays by Shakespeare, Lorca, Sartre, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Anouilh, turned director and made documentaries for BBC before moving on to feature films.
November, 11th 2020. 9 pm
Cineteca Madrid. Sala Plató
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Section: Swedish Directors
Year of Production: 1964
Running Time: 118’
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Director: Mai Zetterling
Cast: Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk, Gunnar, Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Jan Malmsjö, Lissi Alandh, Bengt Brunskog and Anja Boman
Producers: Göran Lindgren and Rune Waldekranz
Production Companies: Sandrews and Prominent Films
International Sales: Swedish Film Institut
Main Festivals and awards: Nomination for Palme d’Or in Cannes Film Festival, the Swedish Film Institute’s Quality Grant, and Swedish Film Society Prize
