Its opening treats the viewer with such random images as a spider, a view of a morgue, a nail being driven through a hand, and an erect penis, the last of which was removed by American censors.
Its opening treats the viewer with such random images as a spider, a view of a morgue, a nail being driven through a hand, and an erect penis, the last of which was removed by American censors. The director deliberately chose to make the sprocket holes visible in the final copy, and added a meta aspect to its ending by cutting to a shot of the camera crew itself. Jorgen Lindstrom and Gunnar Bjornstrand play accessory roles as the son and husband, but the plot centers on the interplay between the mute actress Elisabeth Vogler and her nurse Alma, who is sent to serve as her therapist, but does all the talking herself. FTP, identify this Ingmar Bergman film in which Elisabeth and Alma gradually seem to swap identities.
Its opening treats the viewer with such random images as a spider, a view of a morgue, a nail being driven through a hand, and an erect penis, the last of which was removed by American censors.
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