Released:
1986-03-14

Overview:
About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.

Director:
Mai Zetterling

Runtime:
1h 57min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Stina Ekblad
  as
  Agnes von Krusenstjerna
• 
  Erland Josephson
  as
  David Sprengel
• 
  Philip Zandén
  as
  Adolf von Krusenstjerna
• 
  Lena T. Hansson
  as
  Ava de Geer
• 
  Peter Schildt
  as
  Gerhard Odencrantz