by Ingmar Bergman
91 minute runtime
Watched | January 24, 2020 by 👫 |
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Genres | Drama |
Released | August 28, 1957 |
Links | TMDB (8.1), IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes |
All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.