Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika). Ingmar Bergman, 1953.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #614, included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. released 2012. Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Summer with Monica is on disc #5 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Opening Night’), and is accompanied by a trailer, a 2003 introduction by Bergman with Marie Nyreröd, Stig Björkman’s 2009 documentary Images from the Playground (29 minutes), Peter Cowie’s 2012 interview with Harriet Andersson (25 minutes), and a 2012 interview with Eric Schaefer about Summer with Monika’s distribution as an exploitation film (13 minutes).
