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Harry is a young errand boy in a crockery warehouse. When by chance he meets Monika, a wild erotic girl working in a neighbouring grocer's shop, he is immediately infatuated. Monika has a quarrel with her father and decides to "borrow" a motor boat for a holiday with Harry in the archipelago outside Stockholm. Towards the end of an idyllic period on a remote island, Monika announces that she is pregnant. Harry agrees to do the proper thing and marry her. They move into a shabby flat, and Monika is soon disgruntled with the unglamorous tasks of motherhood. Harry returns from a business trip to find that she has been sleeping with another man in his absence. There is a row, and Monika flounces out of the flat. Harry is left alone with the baby, not knowing what the future may bring. (official distributor synopsis)

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English Film challenge 2018 - Sweden. The first film by the Swedish giant that I watched. It is certainly not one of his most significant works, but he managed to faithfully capture the naivety that often accompanies youth and young love. The last twenty minutes seem as if they were cut out of a realistic or naturalistic novel. And that's how it goes in life, when great romance turns into harsh reality. I cannot help but note that if this film had made its way to communist Czechoslovakia, it would certainly have been marked with the legendary star :-) In conclusion, I am thinking that starting with Ingmar Bergman was definitely the right choice. ()

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