Brink of LifeFeature Film, 1958 Small scale story of three women in a maternity ward.''One of the best films that Swedish cinema has ever produced. This time Ingmar Bergman has had the good sense that he has not always shown: he has joined forces with a top class screenwriter. Ulla Isaksson has presented him with an excellent script from which his direction has produced a maximum of effects. Not artificial effects, but true-to-life narration." - C B-n in Dagens Nyheter |
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Having promised Sveriges Folkbiografer a film, Bergman finally opted to base it around two short stories from a collection ("Aunt of Death") by his friend Ulla Isaksson. He and Isaksson were to work together again: she wrote the screenplays both for The Virgin Spring and The Blessed Ones (1986).