Double Feature
Summer with Monika
Inspired by the earthy eroticism of Harriet Andersson, in the first of her many roles for him, Ingmar Bergman had a major international breakthrough with this sensual and ultimately ravaging tale of young love. A girl (Andersson) and boy (Lars Ekborg) from working-class families in Stockholm run away from home to spend a secluded, romantic summer at the beach, far from parents and responsibilities. Inevitably, it is not long before the pair are forced to return to reality. The version initially released in the U.S. was reedited by its distributor into something more salacious, but the original Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika), presented here, is a work of stunning maturity and one of Bergman’s most important films. (Janus Films)
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer
- Screenplay by Per Anders Fogelström
- Starring
- Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbeson, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese
- Year
- 1953
- Country
- Sweden
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 97 minutes
Inga
Director Joe Sarno’s 1968 breakout hit Inga catapulted its young Swedish star Marie Liljedahl to international fame and established Sarno’s reputation as one of the 20th century’s leading auteurs of sexploitation cinema. A beautiful and naïve young woman becomes a pawn in a game of sexual manipulation and deceit after moving into her aunt’s home. To escape, she must choose between a sophisticated much-older man and her aunt’s younger lover. (Film Movement)
- Director
- Joseph W. Sarno
- Writer
- Joseph W. Sarno
- Starring
- Marie Liljedahl, Monica Strömmerstedt, Thomas Ungewitter, Anne-Lise Myhrvold
- Year
- 1968
- Country
- Sweden
- Format
- 35mm
- Running Time
- 81 minutes