Secrets of Women
1952 · Movie · 104 min · ★ 6.4 · 83% critics
While waiting in a secluded summer cottage for their husbands to arrive, four women trade intimate stories about marriage, desire, disappointment, and compromise. Their conversations unfold as a series of memories, offering different views of love and how relationships change over time.
Also known as Waiting Women
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Details
- Original title
- Kvinnors väntan
- Years
- 1952
- Release date
- 1952-11-03
- Language
- Swedish
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Critic score
- 83/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (72 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy intimate relationship dramas and talky, bittersweet ensemble stories in the vein of Summer Interlude or Smiles of a Summer Night; Not for you if you want a fast-moving plot or clear-cut romance.
Pros: thoughtful relationship themes; strong female perspective; witty elevator segment | Cons: uneven anthology structure; middle story drags; occasionally confusing
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- women's issues
- told in flashback
Cast & crew
Anita Björk
as Rakel
Eva Dahlbeck
as Karin
Maj-Britt Nilsson
as Marta Berg
Birger Malmsten
as Martin Lobelius, artist
Gunnar Björnstrand
as Fredrik Lobelius
Karl-Arne Holmsten
as Eugen Lobelius
Aino Taube
as Annette
Håkan Westergren
as Paul Lobelius
- GA
Gerd Andersson
as Maj, Marta's sister
Björn Bjelfvenstam
as Henrik Lobelius
Directed by Ingmar Bergman