Sweden,
1953, 93 min
Directed by:
Ingmar BergmanScreenplay:
Ingmar BergmanCast:
Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost, Annika Tretow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lissi Alandh, Åke Fridell, Eric Gustafson, Majken Torkeli (more)Plots(1)
Aging,portly, traveling circus owner and ring master Albert Johansson is passing with hisdown-and-out troupe through a provincial town wherehis tobacco shop owner wife Agda liveswith his children. Albert is tired of running and is yearning for the stability of a bourgeois life. (British Film Institute (BFI))