Sommaren med Monika (1953)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Writers:

Per Anders Fogelström (novel)
Per Anders Fogelström (screenplay)

Release Date:

9 February 1953 (Sweden)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A Picture for Wide Screens and Broad Minds

Plot:

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

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

Also Known As:

Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl (USA)
Summer with Monika
Mônica E o Desejo (Brazil) (Portugal) [pt]
Monika et le désir (Belgium: French title) (France) [fr]
Un verano con Mónica (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
Die Zeit mit Monika (West Germany) [de]
Een zomer met Monika (Netherlands) [nl]
Kalokairi me tin Monika (Greece) [el]
Kesä Monikan kanssa (Finland) [fi]
Monica e il desiderio (Italy) [it]
Monika (France) [fr]
Monika en de begeerte (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Rausch der Liebe (Austria) [de]
Sommeren med Monika (Denmark) [da]
Un été avec Monika (Belgium: French title) [fr]
Wakacje z Monika (Poland) [pl]

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

Certification:

Norway:16 | 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:

Jerald Intrator was hired by U.S. distributor, Kroger Babb, to shoot a few additional nude inserts and supervise the U.S. dub and re-scoring by Les Baxter.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sommaren med Göran - En midsommarnattskomedi (2009)

Soundtrack:

HELAN GAAR

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.