Description: Ingmar Bergman, born Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish director, writer, and producer who worked in film, television, theatre, and radio. Considered to be among the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of all time. Bergman’s films Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), exist in extended television versions. Bergman directed over sixty films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which he also wrote.
He also directed over 170 plays. Among his company of actors were Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in Sweden, and many films from Through a Glass Darkly (1961) onward were filmed on the island of Fårö. note. Clicking on the above actors names will display their respectivefilmographies.
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Torment
( 1944 )
An idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.
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Crisis
( 1946 )
A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
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Woman Without a Face
( 1947 )
Martin and Frida married solely because she was pregnant. Later he would have a passionate side-affair with Rut. Rut's sexual feelings were highly neurotic because she had been sexually abused by her stepfather. When the chimney sweep came, she seduced him and afterward felt dirty and desperate. She found and seduced Martin. From the beginning she interspersed mean at...Read all
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Port of Call
( 1963 )
A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
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Eva
( 1948 )
A young sailor during WWII is haunted by his past and struggles to find deliverance in his new relationship with Eva.
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A Ship to India
( 1949 )
A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.
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Thirst
( 1961 )
A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
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To Joy
( 1950 )
Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.
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While the City Sleeps
( 1950 )
Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: a...Read all
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This Can't Happen Here
( 1950 )
A story of two refugees - wife and husband - from the dictatorship. Their quiet life in a new free country is impossible because of the husband's dark secret.
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Summer Interlude
( 1954 )
A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
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Divorced
( 1951 )
Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.
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Summer with Monika
( 1953 )
A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
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Sawdust and Tinsel
( 1956 )
The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
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A Lesson in Love
( 1960 )
After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.
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Smiles of a Summer Night
( 1957 )
In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
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Last Pair Out
( 1956 )
About the life of the student, Bo Dahlin. Bo's parents are divorced. Both have been unfaithful. Bo is engaged with Kerstin, but only have eyes for Anita. Anita is filled with self-disgust.
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The Seventh Seal
( 1958 )
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
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Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (TV Short 1957)
( 1957 )
Herr Sleeman kommer (Mr. Sleeman Is Coming) is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have taken charge of her. Bergman infuses the situation with overtones of rueful pessimism concerning ...Read all
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Wild Strawberries
( 1959 )
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
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Venetianskan
( 1958 )
A young beautiful man from Milan arrives at the carnival in Venice. He meets two flirtatious women.
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Brink of Life
( 1958 )
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
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The Magician
( 1959 )
A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
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Oväder
( 1960 )
An elderly gentleman is trying to find peace and quiet in a fashionable residential house. He pass the time by chatting a local confectioner and by playing chess with his brother. The tranquility is disturbed by a singer moving in the apartment above.
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The Virgin Spring
( 1960 )
In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along the way.
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Dreams
( 1960 )
Two different women - a young photo model and her boss - dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.
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The Devil's Eye
( 1960 )
Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
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Secrets of Women
( 1961 )
The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they each wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.
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Through a Glass Darkly
( 1961 )
Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
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The Pleasure Garden
( 1961 )
A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative moral of the townspeople is shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, ...Read all
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Staden
( 1962 )
A man who lived a life of debauchery awaits his personal bankruptcy.
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Prison
( 1962 )
A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.
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Winter Light
( 1963 )
A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
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Trämålning
( 1963 )
A knight returning home after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death.
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Ett drömspel
( 1963 )
The god Indra's daughter descends to earth to experience firsthand people's living conditions. Bergman's first staging of Strindberg's play "Ett drömspel" ( Dream Play).
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Music in Darkness
( 1963 )
A blind musician falls in love with a kindhearted girl.
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The Silence
( 1964 )
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
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All These Women
( 1964 )
A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.
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Persona
( 1967 )
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
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Stimulantia
( 1967 )
A Swedish film in eight episodes by directors Ingmar Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman, Lars Görling, Hans Alfredson, Tage Danielsson, Hans Abramson, Jörn Donner, Arne Arnbom, Gustaf Molander.
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Hour of the Wolf
( 1968 )
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
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Shame
( 1968 )
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.
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The Rite
( 1969 )
A theatre troupe is called to court because of obscene performance material and an interrogation ensues, which causes them to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
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The Passion of Anna
( 1970 )
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
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Faro Document
( 1970 )
Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary investigates the sometimes deleterious effects of the modern world on traditional farming and fishing communities. The young, especially, voice ...Read all
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Sliki na drvo
( 1970 )
A knight returning home after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death.
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Reservatet
( 1970 )
A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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The Touch
( 1971 )
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
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Cries & Whispers
( 1973 )
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
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The Lie
( 1973 )
An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.
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Misantropen
( 1974 )
Misanthropic Alceste hates mankind for its hypocrisy, deceit, and false flattery. Then he falls in love with rather advanced Célimènte. Bergman's acclaimed stage production for Royal Danish Theater of Moliere's 1666 play. Filmed for TV.
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Scenes from a Marriage
( 1974 )
Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.
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The Magic Flute
( 1975 )
The story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.
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Face to Face
( 1976 )
Two psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
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De fördömda kvinnornas dans (Short 1976)
( 1976 )
The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is passed down to them for generations. Two of the dancers are damned souls that come to life, the third is death and the fourth a child born free, but forced into the other female roles.
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The Serpent's Egg
( 1978 )
Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
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Autumn Sonata
( 1978 )
A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
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Faro Document 1979
( 1979 )
Fårö Document 1979 is the ten-year followup to the first documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.
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A Little Night Music
( 1977 )
Austria, circa 1900: the actress Desiree Armfeldt becomes entangled with multiple intersecting love affairs, which all converge for an evening at the Viennese country estate of her mother, a former courtesan.
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From the Life of the Marionettes
( 1981 )
An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
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Fanny and Alexander
( 1982 )
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
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Hustruskolan
( 1983 )
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Arnolphe's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them?
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Karin's Face (Short 1986)
( 1986 )
A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.
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After the Rehearsal
( 1984 )
As an aging playwright interacts with the young lead in his play after everybody's gone home, he reminisces about her mother, whom he maintained a sexual relationship with before she died.
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Dom Juan
( 1985 )
The French play based on the legend of Don Juan.
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The Blessed Ones
( 1986 )
A middle-aged teacher is suffering from paranoid delusions. Her slightly younger man is bit by bit pulled into her condition. Love has made her vulnerable and jealous and slowly but surely their marriage is transformed into a pitch-black folie à deux.
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Madame de Sade
( 1992 )
Ingmar Bergman's staging at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. While the Marquis De Sade is in prison on charges of crimes of gross perversion, his faithful wife Renee awaits him. Despite all the horrors her husband has committed, she believes that his evil is sacred. Her mother however does everything possible to ensure that the Marquis stays in prison.
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The Best Intentions
( 1992 )
In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.
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Sunday's Children
( 1992 )
The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden and and the adult Pu visiting his father who lives in an old people's home. Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland in the 1920s with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and foll...Read all
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Backanterna
( 1993 )
The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion. An opera composed by Daniel Börtz. Filmed for TV.
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The Last Gasp
( 1995 )
A fictional meeting at the Swedish Film Industry office between the former director George af Klercker and CEO Charles Magnusson. A drunk and bitter Klercker ridicule old movies,and shared memories with Magnusson. af Klercker begs for one last shot at a new film production.
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Private Confessions
( 1996 )
Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, ...Read all
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In the Presence of a Clown
( 1997 )
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tou...Read all
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Faithless
( 2000 )
An imaginary woman recollects the painful experience of adultery to a storyteller.
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Bildmakarna
( 2000 )
The meeting between Victor Sjöström, Swedish film director of the silent era and Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Victor is adapting one of the books of the writer.
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Persona
( 2002 )
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together.
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Saraband
( 2003 )
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
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Bergmanova sonata
( 2005 )
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
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Skines apo ena gamo
( 2006 )
Presents the performance of Ingmar Bergman's play "Scenes of a Wedding". The work is presented with a composition of scenes from the original reading to the premiere, with intermediate directorial advice, commentary of the actors and beautiful human moments.
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Spöksonaten
( 2007 )
Ingmar Bergman's staging at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. The Student can see things few others can, but he does not know the people who are not seen by others. Director Hummel who fears a milk girl, can not see, but the Student can. The two meet one morning.
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A Spiritual Matter
( 2015 )
A Spiritual Matter is the first-ever adaptation of an Ingmar Bergman script since his passing. In this movie, Viktoria is a 40-year-old woman who seems to have gone mad and develops a compelling and moving monologue of moments that marked her existence. Viktoria (Sophie Marceau), a bishop's daughter and pastor's wife, talks to herself and reveals her intimate world: her joys and woes, her childhood and her relationship with her cheating and aloof husband. She voyages from life to life, seemingly playing several roles. She remembers, dreams, fantasizes and hallucinates, bringing back to life her late husband, mother, father and friends.
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Sixty-Four Minutes with Rebecka
A beautiful, pregnant young woman, Rebecka, is a teacher of hearing-impaired children, with complicated relationships. Bored with her existence, she yearns for sexual and social liberation.
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dicobalt : A great Christmas story for the kids.