16+
Drama
91 min
Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant with a wife and children forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation. With its painterly, sun-dappled images and indelible use of Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21, this 1960s art-house sensation is the most ravishing expression of Widerberg’s recurring theme of the tension between individual freedom and social responsibility.
The Swedish film classics program is created with the support of the Swedish-Latvian Cooperation Fund.
Director:
Bo Widerberg
Actors:
Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Year:
1967
Country:
SE
Language:
SE
Subtitles:
LV, EN
