
Summer Interlude(1951)
During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.


“The hour of the wolf is the hour between night and dawn. It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is the deepest, when nightmares feel most real.”
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Max von Sydow
Johan Borg

Liv Ullmann
Alma Borg

Gertrud Fridh
Corinne von Merkens

Georg Rydeberg
Lindhorst

Erland Josephson
Baron von Merkens

Naima Wifstrand
Old Lady with Hat

Ulf Johansson
Heerbrand

Gudrun Brost
Gamla Fru von Merkens
Bertil Anderberg
Ernst von Merkens

Ingrid Thulin
Veronica Vogler
Hour of the Wolf is a drama, horror film released in 1968 exploring themes of island, nightmare, isolation, insanity, artist, diary. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, it stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh. While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
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