Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

Cautiously Recommended

Sweden

Feature Film

Original Title: Gycklarnas afton

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Writer: Ingmar Bergman

Cinematographers: Hilding Bladh, Sven Nykvist

Composer: Karl-Birger Blomdahl

Cast: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost, Annika Tretow, Erik Strandmark, Gunnar Björnstrand, Curt Löwgren

When an almost bankrupt circus rolls into the town in which his estranged wife and sons live, Albert, its ringmaster and owner, must choose between the quiet life and life on the road with his sexy young mistress, who herself has become torn between two men, in Bergman’s vaguely disquieting and stylistically unsettling if rather gimmicky and melodramatic look at male insecurity. Iain.Stott