The sense of fate that descends over the drama is very much Bergman's own -- cruel, distant, ultimately imponderable.
Summer Interlude
An intimate love story—frank, fresh, and delightful in its telling!
1951 · 1h 36m · NOT RATED
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
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Summer Interlude
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During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.
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