Summer with Monika

Ingmar Bergman broke through internationally with this sensual and heartbreaking story about young love. A girl and a boy from working-class families in Stockholm run away from home to spend a remote, romantic summer at the beach, far away from parents and responsibilities. It doesn't take long before the couple is forced to return to reality. The version that was initially released in the US was re-edited by the distributor into something more salacious, but the original Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika) which is presented in Budascoop, is a work of stunning maturity and one of Bergman's most important films.