Secrets of Women

Infobox_Film
name = Secrets of Women


imdb_id = 0044811
writer = Ingmar Bergman
Gun Grut (story)
starring = Anita Björk
Eva Dahlbeck
Maj-Britt Nilsson
Birger Malmsten
Gunnar Björnstrand
Karl-Arne Holmsten
Jarl Kulle
Aino Taube
Håkan Westergren
director = Ingmar Bergman
producer = Allan Ekelund
cinematography = Gunnar Fischer
distributor = AB Svensk Filmindustri (SF),
released = November 3, 1952
runtime = 103 min
language = Swedish
budget =

"Secrets of Women" (Swedish: "Kvinnors väntan") is a 1952 film directed by Ingmar Bergman.

The film is one of the director's early films and is basically a drama about young relationships told by a group of women (in flashbacks). However, as it came to be afterwards: the most memorable part of the film is the funny elevator-scene between actors Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck (a scene that was written as a kind of sketch and is almost pure comedy). That scene became Bergman's first try at comedy on film; and he later stated that it was that very scene that made him realize he could write comedy at all (which he more successfully showed a few years later in films "A Lesson in Love" (1954) and "Smiles of a Summer Night" (1955)), and he was inspired for his later script-writing in the comedy genre by the scene in this film.

Cast

* Anita Björk - Rakel
* Eva Dahlbeck - Karin
* Maj-Britt Nilsson - Marta
* Birger Malmsten - Martin Lobelius
* Gunnar Björnstrand - Fredrik Lobelius
* Karl-Arne Holmsten - Eugen Lobelius
* Jarl Kulle - Kaj
* Aino Taube - Annette
* Håkan Westergren - Paul Lobelius
* Gerd Andersson - Maj
* Björn Bjelfvenstam - Henrik Lobelius

External links

*Imdb title | id=0044811 | title=Secrets of Women