Word: birger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BIRGER JOHANNESSEN
...forces triumph in Anna, played with slow-burning sensuality by Gunnel Lindblom. Anna's substitute for love is blind animal warmth. "How nice that we don't understand each other," she babbles, unburdening herself to the sullen waiter (Birger Malmsten) she has invited into bed, dumbly grateful that all they have in common is the language of desire. Then, "I wish Ester were dead." To hasten the process, she lets Ester come in and watch...
Like the heroine of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Bergman's heroine is a shy young servant (Mai Zetterling) who falls in love with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take...
Operating on an almost mythic basis, Bergman uses boatrides and water to represent fertility in its many aspects. In the first vignette, Rakel (Anita Bjork) makes love to Kaj (Jarl Kulle) in a boathouse after a swim; Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson) and her Bohemian seducer Martin (Birger Malmsten) spend a good part of their Parisian romance rowing in the country; and, finally, the younger sister elopes with her boyfriend in a motorboat...