This Can’t Happen Here

Year: 1950

Runtime: 84 mins

Language: Swedish

Director: Ingmar Bergman

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Atka Natas, a secret agent of the Liquidatzian regime, visits his estranged wife Vera, a chemist helping exiles smuggle compatriots to safety. Local policeman Almkvist, Vera’s former lover, contacts her while probing a refugee’s death. Natas holds a list of operatives in the country and plans to sell it to the Americans, but Vera attempts to kill him after an argument about rescuing her parents from Liquidatzia.

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