SYNOPSIS
The film's story begins in the bleak working-class milieu of Stockholm. Harry and Monika are both in dead end jobs when they meet. Harry is easygoing, while Monika is adventurous, but they fall in love. When Monika gets in trouble at home, Harry steals his father's boat, and he and Monika spend an idyllic summer in the Stockholm archipelago. When the end of the summer forces them to return home, it is clear that Monika is pregnant. Harry happily accepts responsibility and settles down with Monika and their child; he gets a real job and goes to night school to provide for his family. Monika, however, is unsatisfied with her role as homemaker. She yearns for excitement and adventure, a desire which finally leads her astray. Harry leaves town for work and comes home a day early to find his wife with another man. They get a divorce and Harry is left behind with custody of their daughter to raise alone.
CAST & CREW

Ingmar Bergman
Director
Producer(s)
Allan Ekelund
Script
Per Anders Fogelström, Ingmar Bergman
Director of Photography
Gunnar Fischer
Production designer
P. A. Lundgren
Music by
Erik Nordgren
Sound
Sven Hansen
Edit
Tage Holmberg, Gösta Lewin
Cast
Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg.
Production company(ies)
Svensk Filmindustri
Ingmar Bergman
Born in Uppsala, to a Lutheran minister, Bergman grew up surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. Bergman attended Stockholm University and became interested in theater, and later in cinema. His films usually dealt with existential questions about mortality, loneliness, and faith; they were also usually direct and not overtly stylized. Persona, an avant-garde work and one of Bergman's most famous films, is unusual among Bergman's films. Bergman was one of the acknowledged masters of modern cinema. His films are representative of the artistic, and sometimes non-linear storytelling techniques of European cinema in contrast to Hollywood, stressing the visual nature of the medium over more traditional plotting. During his early period, he worked exclusively in black and white. Some of his most loved files come from this period, including Sawdust and Tinsel (1955), Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal (both 1957), the latter two are still recognized as early masterpieces. Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence are generally considered a trilogy, (although Bergman disputes it) revolving around the existential themes of the meaningless of modern life and “God’s silence.” Bergman’s seeming obsession with the death of God was best received not in his homeland of Sweden, which was already a post-Christian society, but in America, where his films became very popular in art houses and especially on college campuses.
Filmography
Crisis (1946), It Rains on Our Love (1946), A Ship to India (1947), Music in Darkness (1948), Port of Call (1948), Prison (1949), Thirst (1949), This Can't Happen Here (1950), To Joy (1950), Summerplay (1951), Waiting Women (1952), Sunset of a Clown (1953), Summer with Monika (1953), A Lesson in Love (1954), Dreams (1955), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Magician (1958), Brink of Life (1958), The Devil's Eye (1960), The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), The Silence (1963), Winter Light (1963), All These Women (1964), Persona (1966), Stimulantia (segment Daniel, 1967), Shame (1968), The Rite (1968), Hour of the Wolf (1968), The Passion (1969), The Touch (1971), Cries and Whispers (1973), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Face to Face (1975), The Magic Flute (1975), The Serpent's Egg (1977), Autumn Sonata (1978), From the Life of the Marionettes (1980), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Karin's Face (1986, doc.), Saraband (2003).