It's no less schematic than it sounds, but solid performances and straightforward handling make Bergman's fourth feature the most fully achieved, though hardly most characteristic, of his fledgling film career to that point.
Overview
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Director and cast
- Ingmar Bergman Director
- Nine-Christine Jönsson as Berit Holm
- Bengt Eklund as Gösta Andersson
- Mimi Nelson as Gertrud Ljungberg
- Berta Hall as Berit's Mother
- Birgitta Valberg as Agneta Vilander
- Sif Ruud as Mrs. Krona
- Else-Merete Heiberg as Girl at the youth shelter
- Britta Billsten as Prostitute
- Harry Ahlin as Skåningen
- Nils Hallberg as Gustav
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