This co-production between Norway and Sweden is the first film that Anja Breien has made since Wives. She has adapted a novel by Hjalmar Soderberg. who also wrote 'Gertrud' from which Carl Dreyer's last film was made, and Doctor Glas' (made into a film by Mai Zetterhng) Games of Love and Loneliness, concerns the manners and mores of Scandinavian society between the years 1897 and 1912. A young journalist, Arvid, falls in love with a girl but won't commit himself to marrying her. She marries an older and richer man and he's pushed into marrying the girl he's been sleeping with. He meets his first love again, and she leaves her husband to have an affair with him, but he still cannot bring himself to leave his wife. Although Anja Breien has changed the character of the girl to make her less of a femme fatale and more of an emancipated woman, the film's central concern is the young man who cannot make up his mind what to do with his life.
Credits
Games of Love and Loneliness Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Erland Josephson
He was 54, 88 years old when he died
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as Doncker |
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Hans Alfredson
He was 46, 86 years old when he died
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as Freutiger |
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Allan Edwall
He was 53, 72 years old when he died
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as Markel |
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Ernst Günther
He was 44, 66 years old when he died
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as Jacob Randel |
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Chatarina Larsson
She was 30, now 77 years old
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as Marta Brehm |
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Birgitta Andersson
She was 44, now 91 years old
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as Hilma Randel |
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Stefan Ekman
He was 32, now 79 years old
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as Arvid Stjärnblom |
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Stig Ossian Ericson
He was 53, 88 years old when he died
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as Rissler |
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Lil Terselius
She was 32, now 79 years old
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as Lydia Stille |
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Palle Granditsky
He was 53, 77 years old when he died
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as Anders Stille |
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Peter Schildt
He was 26, now 72 years old
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as Lidner |
Games of Love and Loneliness Crew
