Top Cast
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Jenny Hasselqvist
Marit
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Mathias Taube
Johan
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Hildegard Harring
Johan's Mother
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Urho Somersalmi
Stranger
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Lilly Berg
Maid
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Nils Fredrik Widegren
Old Fisherman
Overview
On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.
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