Monika

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Monika ★★½ Summer with Monika 1952

Two teenagers who run away together for the summer find the winter brings more responsibility than they can handle when the girl becomes pregnant and gives birth. Lesser, early Bergman, sensitively directed, but dull. Adapted by Bergman from a Per Anders Fogelstrom novel. In Swedish with English subtitles. 96m/B VHS . SW Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, John Harryson, Georg Skarstedt, Dagmar Ebbesen, Ake Gronberg; D: Ingmar Bergman; W: Ingmar Bergman; M: Les Baxter.

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