Summer with Monika

Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Starring
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen
Duration
95 min.
Year
1952

Two teenagers in love flee their life of drudgery in Stockholm and take one of their fathers' boats to spend the summer on the nearby islands. But the romance can't last. Bergman's groundbreaking first film was tailor-made for the phenomenal Harriet Andersson, whose ephemeral nude scene made it a hit in America.

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