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Loving Couples (Swedish: Älskande par) is a 1964 Swedish drama film directed by Mai Zetterling. It was Zetterling's first feature film and entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth.
- Agda
Loving Couples (1964) — (Movie Clip) Beware Of Women Introducing the third expectant mom at a pre-WWI Swedish hospital, Harriet Andersson as Agda in a reckless attempt to induce labor while the head doctor Lewin (Gunnar Björnstrand) muses contemptible attitudes to junior colleague Sam (Henrik Schildt), first-time director Mai Zetterling ...
- Mai Zetterling, Lena Malmsjö, Bertil Ohlsson
- Harriet Andersson
Currently you are able to watch "Loving Couples" streaming on Criterion Channel. Synopsis As three pregnant women wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences.
- Mai Zetterling
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Loving Couples (1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
This adaptation of a novel by Agnes von Krusenstjerna deals with the place of women in Swedish society at the beginning of the 20th century, sharing the daily lives of couples from the artistic, bourgeois, aristocratic and proletarian worlds. The deep love between a man and a woman is portrayed as an ideal that cannot last forever.
Agda, a housemaid made pregnant by a young middle-class man, has just married a homosexual artist. Adele, married to a farmer, suffers from frigidity, and is expecting a baby which is practically the product of a rape by her husband.
