Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected...
Gustaf Molander
Swedish filmmaker born in Helsinki in 1888 and died in Stockholm in 1973. Between 1907 and 1909 he trained at the Dramaten in Stockholm, where he later taught students such as Greta Garbo, and worked as an actor at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki and at the Dramaten itself. He wrote several scripts for Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, before making his debut in 1920 with ‘Bodakungen’, which marked the beginning of his collaboration with Svensk Filmindustri and helped to launch Scandinavian cinema. In his half-a-century-long career in cinema, he directed farces and comedies, dramas and period pieces, films for children and young people, biopics and films depicting the war and its aftermath. He participated in the Venice Film Festival with films such as ‘A Woman’s Face’ (1938), ‘Jacobs Stege’ (1942), ‘Eva’ (1949) and ‘The Woman Without a Face’, which was the first of his two collaborations with a young Ingmar Bergman as a screenwriter (the other was ‘Divorced’, 1951).
Screenings
O.V. in Swedish with English and Spanish subtitles