Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Swedish — subtitles on.
The story
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
- rape
- brother
- peasant
- child murder
- revenge
- pregnant woman
- medieval
- rape and revenge
- 13th century
- spring (water)
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Axel Düberg — Thin Herdsman
- Allan Edwall — Beggar
- Tor Isedal — Mute Herdsman
- Ove Porath — Boy
- Axel Slangus — Bridge Keeper
- Gudrun Brost — Frida
- Oscar Ljung — Simon
- Tor Borong — Farm-hand
- Leif Forstenberg — Farm-hand
- Directed
- Ingmar Bergman
- Written
- Ulla Isaksson
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 681 ratings
- Studio
- SF Studios
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
