Doctor Glas

Doktor Glas

Mai Zetterling’s radical adaptation of the taboo-filled 1905 novel, controversial for its treatment of women’s rights, marital rape, abortion and euthanasia.

  • Director

    Mai Zetterling

  • With

    Per Oscarsson, Lone Hertz, Ulf Palme

  • Denmark 1966. 83min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

A tale of sexual obsession and moral hypocrisy told in flashbacks, as bourgeois Doctor Glas becomes infatuated with a pastor’s wife. When she confides in him her disgust at her older husband’s attempts to force himself on her, Glas first seeks to dissuade the man, then considers other, more radical, options. Zetterling makes bold stylistic choices in this adaptation of Hjalmar Söderberg’s controversial 1905 novel.

Courtesy of Nordisk Film Production A/S.