ELVIRA MADIGAN (1967)

BO WIDERBERG

Classics Romance Art House 10th - 19th Centuries Drama Cannes Winners Historical Recommended

Cast

PIA DEGERMARK THOMMY BERGGREN LENNART MALMEN

Plot

Winner of the Best Actress award at Cannes, 1967, and possibly the prettiest film of the sixties. A high-ranking Swedish soldier sacrifices his wife, career and social standing for the love of a young circus girl, but their idyllic liaison is soon tainted by the realities of life. Romantic tragedy.