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- Release Date: 1956
- Runtime: 93 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek ... see all
- Director: Ingmar Bergman
- Plot: While traveling in caravan through the country of Sweden, one member of the decadent Alberti Circus tells the owner and ringmaster Albert Johansson a sad story about the clown Frost:... Read more
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| Nov 25, 2007Slant Magazine
The sound keenly captures the picture's aural dissonance.....Sardonic moments lighten the gloom:....this is a world, one character says, of "misery, lice, disease," where a disdainful theater director's insults sting as much as physical blows.....afraid of being ditched, his sexy, petulant mistress, Anne (Harriet Andersson), sleeps with a vain actor, Frans (Hasse Ekman).....The ruthless stripping of the characters' dreams and illusions by Bergman's increasingly invasive camera..... ... Full Review
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