Brink of Life
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Released
- 1958
- Country
- Sweden
Details
Release year: 1958
Storyline
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Top credits
Eva Dahlbeck — Stina Andersson
Ingrid Thulin — Cecilia 'Cissi' Ellius
Bibi Andersson — Hjördis Petterson
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs — Brita - Avdelningssköterska
Did you know
• There is no musical score, just a few bars from a radio at 10.55 pm. The tune played is Sweden's national anthem indicating the end of the broadcast that day.
• Chosen by John Waters as one of his 10 favorite films in the 2002 Sight & Sound Directors' poll.
• When the film was first released in Italy in 1960 the Committee for the Theatrical Review of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities rated it as VM16: not suitable for children under 16. In order for the film to be screened publicly, the Committee imposed the removal of the scene in which Stina is in pain due to labor. The reason for the age restriction and removal of the scene cited in the official documents, is that the film was not suitable to the sexual morals of a minor in the Italian society, and the scene was considered to be shocking.
User reviews
a turning point in my film going life
Standard early Bergman, in other words, very impressive
A touching story.
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Black and White