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Crisis (1946)

Crisis poster
Original title
Kris
Directed by
Ingmar Bergman
Genre
drama film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 108 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in a small town faces a life-changing decision when her biological mother reappears. The story follows her struggle between two different worlds and the people who claim to love her.

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What happens

Crisis (Swedish: Kris) is a 1946 Swedish melodrama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman (in his directorial debut), based on the Danish radio play Moderhjertet (translated as The Mother Animal, A Mother's Heart, The Mother Creature, and The Maternal Instinct) by Leck Fischer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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