Secrets of Women

Secrets of Women
Directed by	Ingmar Bergman
Produced by	Allan Ekelund
Written by	Ingmar Bergman Gun Grut (story)
Starring	Anita Björk Eva Dahlbeck Maj-Britt Nilsson Birger Malmsten Gunnar Björnstrand Karl-Arne Holmsten Jarl Kulle Aino Taube Håkan Westergren
Cinematography	Gunnar Fischer
Editing by	Oscar Rosander
Distributed by	AB Svensk Filmindustri (SF),
Release date(s)	3 November 1952
Running time	103 min
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

Secrets of Women (Swedish: Kvinnors väntan) is a 1952 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman.

The film is one of the director's early films and is basically a drama about young relationships told by a group of women (in flashbacks). However, as it came to be afterwards: the most memorable part of the film is the funny elevator-scene between actors Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck (a scene that was written as a kind of sketch and is almost pure comedy). That scene became Bergman's first try at comedy on film; and he later stated that it was that very scene that made him realize he could write comedy at all (which he more successfully showed a few years later in films A Lesson in Love (1954) and Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)), and he was inspired for his later script-writing in the comedy genre by the scene in this film.

Cast

• Anita Björk – Rakel
• Eva Dahlbeck – Karin
• Maj-Britt Nilsson – Marta
• Birger Malmsten – Martin Lobelius
• Gunnar Björnstrand – Fredrik Lobelius
• Karl-Arne Holmsten – Eugen Lobelius
• Jarl Kulle – Kaj
• Aino Taube – Annette
• Håkan Westergren – Paul Lobelius
• Gerd Andersson – Maj
• Björn Bjelfvenstam – Henrik Lobelius

External links

• Secrets of Women at the Internet Movie Database