Prison

Year: 1949

Runtime: 75 mins

Language: Swedish

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Drama

When a former math teacher pitches a film about the Devil proclaiming Earth to be hell, a director dismisses it. However, a series of unsettling events involving a writer, the director’s friend and a young prostitute he loves begin to echo the teacher’s chilling premise, suggesting that life itself becomes a kind of prison.

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