The Girls (1968)
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As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.
- Date of release
- 1968-09-16
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (34)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Mai Zetterling
Casting
- Bibi Andersson — Liz / Lysistrata
- Harriet Andersson — Marianne / Myrrhine
- Gunnel Lindblom — Gunilla / Kalonike
- Gunnar Björnstrand — Hugo
- Erland Josephson — Carl, Mann von Liz
- Frank Sundström — Marianne's lover
- Åke Lindström — Bengt
- Stig Engström — Thommy
- Margreth Weivers — Tourist Manager's Wife
- Leif Liljeroth — Tourist Manager Kiruna
- Ulf Palme — Director
- Ingvar Kjellson — Olle
Interesting facts
- Based on: Lysistrata
The Girls is a 1968 Swedish-language drama film directed by Mai Zetterling, starring Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom. It is a feminist reinvention of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, and revolves around a theatre group which sets up the play.
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