Your dad's mistress is now your stepmom—and you're still sleeping with her. Awkward.
A 19-year-old boy, after his mother's death, starts a relationship with his father's mistress, although he is engaged. The relationship continues after the woman has become his stepmother.
Acting
Hans Ernback's simmering resentment is uncomfortably real.
Cinematography
Bleak Swedish landscapes that mirror the characters.
Director
Hans Abramson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Stig Dagerman's 1948 novel; Dagerman killed himself at 31, and his work often explores suicidal masculinity.
This was Sweden's failed Oscar submission—perhaps too morally murky for 1967 Academy tastes.
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