
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play & Waiting Women& is an episodic work composed of three segments thr third of which represents Bergman&s first foray into comedy later honed in the erotic farce &A Lesson In Love& Three women (all sisters-in-law) talk about their marital problems while waiting for their husbands at a summer cottage The first story concerns Rakel (Anita Björk) & an adulterous episode that changed her marriage forever In the next intensely visual segment featuring only limited dialogue Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson) tells of her difficult relationship with an artist (her future husband) in Paris In the acclaimed final piece
- which Bergman himself considered quite innovative & daring & was inspired by the cinematic style of Alfred Hitchcock
- Karin & her husband Fredrik (Eva Dahlbeck & Gunnar Björnstrand) find themselves stuck together in an elevator & consequently end up making some surprising discoveries about each other&s personalities The three women&s stories inspire Karin&s younger sister Maj (Gerd Andersson) to elope with the man she loves Actors Anita Bjork Eva Dahlbeck Maj-Britt Nilsson Birger Malmsten Gunnar Bjornstrand Karl-Arne Holmsten Jarl Kulle & Aino Taube Director Ingmar Bergman Certificate PGYear 1952 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages Swedish
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 43 minutes (approx)