Sommaren med Monika (1953)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Writer:

Per Anders Fogelström (screenplay)
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Release Date:

9 February 1953 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A Picture for Wide Screens and Broad Minds

Plot:

Harry Lund is a nineteen year old young man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebellious seventeen year old...

Plot Keywords:

Summer | Love | Archipelago | Island | Female Nudity

Cast

Harriet Andersson	...	Monika
Lars Ekborg	...	Harry
Dagmar Ebbesen	...	Harry's aunt
Åke Fridell	...	Monika's father
Naemi Briese	...	Monika's mother
Åke Grönberg	...	Harry's friend at work
Sigge Fürst	...	Porcelain warehouse worker
John Harryson	...	Lelle
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gert Fylking	...	The Boy - statist
Harry Ahlin	...	House owner (uncredited)
Anders Andelius	...	Monika's escort (uncredited)
Wiktor Andersson	...	Beer drinker (uncredited)
Renée Björling	...	Wife of house owner (uncredited)
Astrid Bodin	...	Woman in window (uncredited)
Tor Borong	...	Second-hand salesman (uncredited)
Ernst Brunman	...	Tobacconist (uncredited)
Bengt Brunskog	...	Sicke (uncredited)
Bengt Eklund	...	Vegetable warehouse worker (uncredited)
Carl-Axel Elfving	...	Worker (uncredited)
Hans Ellis	...	Svensson (uncredited)
Gösta Ericsson	...	Mr. Forsberg (uncredited)
Arthur Fischer	...	Vegetable warehouse owner (uncredited)
Jessie Flaws	...	House owner's daughter (uncredited)
Gustaf Färingborg	...	Vegetable warehouse worker (uncredited)
Mona Geijer-Falkner	...	Woman in window (uncredited)
Göthe Grefbo	...	Vegetable warehouse worker (uncredited)
Gösta Gustafson	...	Cashier (uncredited)
Nils Hultgren	...	Vicar (uncredited)
Magnus Kesster	...	Worker (uncredited)
Carl-Uno Larsson	...	Hasse, Monika's brother (uncredited)
Torsten Lilliecrona	...	The driver (uncredited)
Gordon Löwenadler	...	Monika's escort (uncredited)
Sten Mattsson	...	Harry's friend (uncredited)
Kjell Nordenskiöld	...	Hero in american movie (uncredited)
Gösta Prüzelius	...	Salesman (uncredited)
Birger Sahlberg	...	Beer drinker (uncredited)
Hanny Schedin	...	Mrs. Boman, cafe owner (uncredited)
Georg Skarstedt	...	Harry's father (uncredited)
Einar Söderbäck	...	Second-hand salesman (uncredited)
Ivar Wahlgren	...	House owner (uncredited)
Catrin Westerlund	...	Daughter of house owner (uncredited)
Nils Whiten	...	Second-hand salesman (uncredited)
Margaret Young	...	Heroin in american movie (uncredited)
Mona Åstrand	...	Girl (uncredited)
Gun Östring	...	Nurse at maternity ward (uncredited)

Directed by
Ingmar Bergman

Writing credits
Per Anders Fogelström		(novel) uncredited
Ingmar Bergman		uncredited
Per Anders Fogelström		screenplay

Produced by
Allan Ekelund	....	producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Les Baxter		(US version)
Erik Nordgren
Eskil Eckert-Lundin		(uncredited)
Walle Söderlund		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Gunnar Fischer

Film Editing by
Tage Holmberg		(uncredited)
Gösta Lewin		(uncredited)

Production Design by
P.A. Lundgren

Sound Department
Sven Hansen	....	sound
Eskil Lindberg	....	sound (uncredited)
Sven Rudestedt	....	sound mixer (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Louis Huch	....	still photographer (uncredited)
Bengt Nordwall	....	assistant camera (uncredited)

Music Department
Eskil Eckert-Lundin	....	orchestrator (as E. Eckert-Lundin)

Other crew
Kroger Babb	....	presenter (re-edited US version)
Carl M. Lundh	....	mask
Tor Borong	....	technical assistant (uncredited)
Birgit Norlindh	....	continuity clerk (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Distributors

• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (1953) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Hallmark Productions (1955) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• Svensk Filmindustri (SF) (1959) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) (2000) (USA) (VHS)
• Versátil Home Vídeo (2008) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Constantin-Filmverleih (1953) (Austria) (theatrical)
• Rosebud (Greece) (theatrical)
• Criterion Collection, The (2012) (USA) (DVD)
• Janus Films (196?) (worldwide) (all media)

Also Known As:

"Summer with Monika" - International (English title) (imdb display title), USA (imdb display title)
"Monika" - USA (MIFED title)
"Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl" - USA
"Un verano con Mónica" - Argentina, Mexico (imdb display title), Spain
"Monika et le désir" - Belgium (French title), France
"Die Zeit mit Monika" - West Germany
"Een zomer met Monika" - Netherlands (informal literal title)
"Egy nyár Mónikával" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Kalokairi me tin Monika" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
"Kesä Monikan kanssa" - Finland
"Leto s Monikou" - Czechoslovakia (Slovak title) (imdb display title)
"Mónica e o Desejo" - Portugal (imdb display title)
"Mônica E o Desejo" - Brazil
"Monica e il desiderio" - Italy
"Monika" - France
"Monika en de begeerte" - Belgium (Flemish title)
"Rausch der Liebe" - Austria
"Sommeren med Monika" - Denmark
"Un été avec Monika" - Belgium (French title)
"Wakacje z Monika" - Poland

Runtime:

96 min | USA:62 min (re-edited version)

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (AGA Sound System)

Certification:

Norway:16 | West Germany:18 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (1994)

Filming Locations:

Ornö, Stockholms län, Sweden

Company:

Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Trivia:

The film's then ground-breaking nudity led to its American distributor snapping up the film sight unseen and marketing it along the lines of a Russ Meyer picture. It remains the most widely seen Ingmar Bergman film in the US.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Deux de la Vague (2010)

Soundtrack:

KAERLEKENS HAMN

A classic in a pristine new print from Janus

Ingmar Bergman's Monika (Summer with Monika) (1953) is the story of two Stockholm teenagers, stock boy Harry (Lars Ekborg) and voluptuous, impulsive Monika (Harriet Andersson), who meet and fall in love and run away for a summer on a motorboat on the Stockholm archipelago escaping from work and all responsibility. Monika becomes pregnant and they return to the city and marry – but things turn bad. This first powerful feature by the Swedish master is simple and sweet but nonetheless rich in emotional wrenching events. The film, which depicts teenage unwed sex, was shockingly sensual for its time. In 2006 the intensity of Harriet Andersson's uninhibited performance is still impressive and this story is just as heartbreaking as it was over half a century ago.

Presented as part of the Janus Films sidebar of the 2006 New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center in another gorgeous pristine-looking new print with a rich black and white tonal range that may look better than the original did.