Top Cast
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Inga Tidblad
Gertrud Holmgren
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Alf Kjellin
Dr. Bertil Nordelius
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Doris Svedlund
Marianne Berg
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Hjördis Petterson
Kerstin Nordelius, inackorderingstant, Bertils mor
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Håkan Westergren
P.A. Beckman, disponent på Beckmans Modehus
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Irma Christenson
fil. dr Cecilia Lindeman, laborator, Tore Holmgrens nya kvinna
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Holger Löwenadler
Tore Holmgren, ingenjör, Gertruds f.d. man
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Marianne Löfgren
Ingeborg, gäst på festen
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Stig Olin
Hans, högskolestuderande, Gertruds svärson
Overview
Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
Rating
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Olof lives alone on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read and write, he is dependent on his younger friend, Erik, who helps him in the afternoons. Once a sailor, Erik brags of having known hundreds of women. Out of the blue, Olof advertises in the local paper for a young lady housekeeper, and Ellen, a middle-class city woman, arrives to take over the house and, as the summer goes on, Olof's heart and Erik's desire as well.
Under the Sun
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Not Easily Broken
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Blind
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Nobody Has to Know
A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.
Maria's Lovers
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
The Man from Elysian Fields
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
Gabriel's Inferno: Part III
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
Dirt Music
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Nine Lives
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.