Film Forum

(1953) As a traveling troupe rolls through the countryside of turn-of-the-century Sweden, the coach driver tells circus owner Åke Grönberg a tale of humiliation: clown Anders Ek must retrieve his naked wife before a crowd of leering, jeering soldiers. But then Grönberg finds himself metaphorically re-enacting it in his own circus ring. Bergman’s first masterpiece. DCP restoration. Approx. 92 min.