DramaRomance

Dreams

Susanne is a woman in her mid-30s and the owner of a modeling agency in Stockholm. She accompanies her prize model, Doris, on a trip to Gothenburg so that Doris can be photographed. While traveling, both women seek out romance, Susanne with a married lover and Doris with an older gentleman who sees his deceased wife in the young model. The two women struggle to understand their romantic motivations and in the process form an unlikely friendship.

Release Date : 1955-08-22

Language :EnglishSwedish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Sandrews

Production Country : Sweden

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Susanne

Original Name : Eva Dahlbeck

Gender : Female

Character Name : Doris

Original Name : Harriet Andersson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Otto Sönderby, konsul

Original Name : Gunnar Björnstrand

Gender : Male

Character Name : Henrik Lobelius

Original Name : Ulf Palme

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fru Lobelius

Original Name : Inga Landgré

Gender : Female

Character Name : Magnus

Original Name : Benkt-Åke Benktsson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Palle Palt

Original Name : Sven Lindberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marianne

Original Name : Kerstin Hedeby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fru Arén

Original Name : Naima Wifstrand

Gender : Female

Character Name : Maria Berger

Original Name : Renée Björling

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ferdinand Sundström

Original Name : Ludde Gentzel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Fotograf

Original Name : Axel Düberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Butiksbiträde

Original Name : Git Gay

Gender : Female

Character Name : Fanny

Original Name : Marianne Nielsen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Make-up artist

Original Name : Jessie Flaws

Gender : Female

Character Name : Fashion designer

Original Name : Bengt Schött

Gender : Male

Character Name : Model

Original Name : Viola Sundberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr Barse, jeweller

Original Name : Tord Stål

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hotel porter

Original Name : Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Clerk

Original Name : Inga Gill

Gender : Female

Character Name : Sundström's assistant

Original Name : Maud Hyttenberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Woman at the cafe

Original Name : Margaretha Bergström

Gender : Female

Character Name : Man with a poodle at the hotel

Original Name : Ingmar Bergman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dark girl

Original Name : Gunhild Qvarsebo

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Gunhild Kjellqvist

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Richard Mattsson

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Per-Erik Åström

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Curt Kärrby

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Folke Åström

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Asta Beckman

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Ninni Arpe

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Elsa Hofgren

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Millan Lyxell

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Inga Rosqvist

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Greta Stave

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Ella Welander

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Gerd Widestedt

Gender : Male

Reviews

CRCulver

@CRCulver

2021-06-23

Ingmar Bergman's 1955 film KVINNODRÖM ("Women's Dreams", released in the English-speaking world as simply "Dreams") has two interwoven plots that each involve a woman coming face to face with her aspirations to love and romance and being disappointed. Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck) runs an agency for fashion models in Stockholm, but she is distracted from work by an obsession with a married man (played by Ulf Palme) whose mistress she once was. Though the affair has been cut off, Susanne continues to stalk him. Meanwhile, one her models, Doris (Harriet Andersson) is seduced by a rich old man (Gunnar Björnstrand) who identifies her love of expensive clothes and jewelry as her weak spot. The 1950s were anni mirabili for Ingmar Bergman, when he was increasingly cementing a reputation as one of the finest filmmakers in the world. Though this 1955 effort came out right in the middle of such legendary achievements as "Summer with Monika", "Sawdust and Tinsel", and "The Seventh Seal", it has never been considered one of Bergman's better films, and there hasn't even been much of a push to recognize it as a lost masterpiece like some other lesser-known works of this period. The plot revisits already well-worth themes. Plus, I was very underwhelmed by the initial minutes of the film, which sinks into pure melodrama at one point as Susanne agonizes on a train and considers suicide. The film is shot in a dry, realistic style and lacks the dazzling effects that Bergman had already begun to employ. However, the film is certainly worthwhile for established fans of Bergman through the performances he evokes from the actors. Dahlbeck, who was considered quite a great talent and beauty in her day, leaves me cold, but Ulf Palme elicits simultaneous sympathy and disgust as the henpecked husband that Sussane has an affair with. Inga Landgré's small but climactic part as the man's wife thrills with her composed delivery of devastating lines. The real stars of the film, however, are Andersson and Björnstrand. Harriet Andersson was a sex bomb, and often played roles that capitalized on that, but here her ditzy Doris is a full-fledged character of her own, different from Andersson's appearances in other Bergman films. She also knows how to drive so much of the interpersonal action with her deft facial expressions alone. Björnstrand is admirable for the charm and grace he shows as the old seducer, and with poise he gradually shows the cracks in the façade as their fling might not have been a good idea after all.