Night Games (Swedish: Nattlek) is a 1966 Swedish movie directed by Mai Zetterling and starring Ingrid Thulin. The film premiered at the 27th Venice International Film Festival where it was considered so controversial that it was shown to the jury in private.[1] The film was also the cause of former child-star Shirley Temple's resignation from the San Francisco International Film Festival. Temple denounced the film as “pornography for profit” and was against its being shown at the festival.[2]
| Night Games | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Mai Zetterling |
| Written by | David Hughes Mai Zetterling |
| Produced by | Göran Lindgren |
| Cinematography | Rune Ericson |
| Edited by | Paul Davies |
| Music by | Jan Johansson Georg Riedel |
Production company | Sandrews |
| Distributed by | Sandrew Rank Gala Film Distributors Mondial Films Gefion Film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Filmipaja City Film Sandrew Metronome Distribution Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet Stockholm |
Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
| Languages | English Swedish |
Plot
editJan returns with his fiancée to his childhood home. While there he flashes back to his childhood, twenty years before when he lived an unfettered life watched over by a strange great-aunt and a hedonistic and often neglectful mother and father.
In particular he remembers watching his mother give birth to a stillborn child after refusing to go to the hospital in the middle of a party and his sexual obsession with his mother which included being caught by her while he was masturbating while listening to her read a bedtime story.
In the present, his relationship with his fiancée grows more strained as his past begins to affect the way he acts in the present.
Cast
edit- Ingrid Thulin as Irene, the mother
- Keve Hjelm as Jan, as an adult
- Jörgen Lindström as Jan, age 12
- Lena Brundin as Mariana
- Naima Wifstrand as Astrid
- Monica Zetterlund as Lotten
- Lauritz Falk as Bruno
- Rune Lindström as Albin
- Christian Bratt as Erland
- Lissi Alandh as Melissa
References
edit- ^ Crowther, Bosley. "The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966) Screen: 'Night Games' on View at Festival Theater:Mai Zetterling's Movie a Deliberate Shocker". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ "Shirley Temple - obituary". Retrieved 22 May 2015.
External links
edit- Night Games at IMDb
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