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Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes88%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
88 audience votes
Key crew
- Hilding RosenbergOriginal Music Composer
- Ingmar BergmanWriter
- Alf SjöbergDirector
Cast
- Stig JärrelCaligula
- Alf KjellinJan-Erik Widgren
- Mai ZetterlingBertha Olsson
- Olof WinnerstrandHeadmaster
- Gösta CederlundPippi
- Hugo BjörneDr. Nilsson
- Olav RiégoMr. Widgren
- Märta ArbinMrs. Widgren
- Jan MolanderPettersson
- Gunnar BjörnstrandTeacher
- Birger MalmstenKreutz, student
- Stig OlinSandman, student
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Themes
melancholyteacherschool teacherstrict teachertormentschoolmasterschoolboylatin teacherabsurddramatic