Beröringen (1971)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Guionista:

Ingmar Bergman (writer)

Release Date:

14 julio 1971 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home...

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Affair | Infidelity | Nudity | Independent Film

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Two Lives of a Married Woman

Cast

Elliott Gould	...	David Kovac
Bibi Andersson	...	Karin Vergerus
Max von Sydow	...	Andreas Vergerus
Sheila Reid	...	Sara Kovac

También conocida como:

The Touch (USA)
Carcoma, La (Spain) [es]
Toque, El (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

115 min

País:

Sweden | USA

Idioma:

English | Swedish

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Iceland:L | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1996) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Film-Teknik Studios, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Cinematograph AB

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Rip Van Marlowe (2002) (V)

Soundtrack:

Liksom En Herdinna

The Two Lives of a Married Woman

In a small town in Sweden, Karin Vergerus (Bibi Andersson) is a middle-class housewife, married with Dr. Andreas Vergerus (Max von Sydow) and having a son and a daughter. She meets the disturbed German-American Jewish architect David Kovac (Elliott Gould), who is restoring a church in her town, and has recently become friend of her husband. David has drinking and smoking problems and after a dinner party at the Vergerus's home, he confesses his infatuation for Karin to her. This declaration revives her sensuality and femininity, which were forgotten after fifteen years of stable and loyal marriage. Karin has an affair with David, tearing apart her world: in one side, she has the stability and safety of her boring marriage and bourgeois life, and in the other side, she has the freedom of the relationship with her lover. She has lots of difficulties to decide the course of her life. This magnificent open end film is another wonderful work of Ingmar Bergman, his first English spoken movie. Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow and Elliott Gould have again outstanding performances in a touching story about a thirty-four years woman divided in two possible lives and without knowing how to decide the way to be followed. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): `A Hora do Amor' (`The Hour of the Love')