Copyright: Swedish Film Institute

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Stina Ekblad, Erland Josephson, Philip Zandén

  • Sweden 1986. 117min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

Born into Swedish nobility, Agnes von Krusenstjerna defies convention by pursuing a writing career. As she harnesses her burgeoning talent to write erotic fiction, while coming to terms with her own sexuality, her trajectory is peppered with success and all-consuming danger. Zetterling sets the scene for her final feature film as director with a harrowing opening sequence in Venice that is drenched in a claustrophobic atmosphere so thick you can feel it.