# Directors: Ingmar Bergman
# Rating: NOT RATED
# Release Date: 9 April 1956 (USA)
# Studio: Criterion Collection
# DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
# Run Time: 93 minutes
# Country: Sweden
# Language: Swedish

# Actors: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost

Sawdust and Tinsel (UK)
Gycklarnas afton (Sweden)
Sunset of a Clown

The Naked Night (USA)
DESPERATELY they fought the desires, the passions that dragged them down deeper and deeper into… “The Naked Night”
Ingmar Bergman presents the battle of the sexes as a ramshackle grotesque carnival in this one of the late master’s most vivid early works. The story of the twisted relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner (Ake Gronberg) and his performer girlfriend (Harriet Andersson) Sawdust and Tinsel features dreamlike detours and twisted psychosexual power play that presage the director’s Smiles of a Summer Night and The Seventh Seal works that would soon change the landscape of art cinema forever.

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