[Gycklarnas afton, Abend der Gaukler]

SE 1953, R: Ingmar Bergman mit Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman, 92 Min, OmeU

Bergman's earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation, Sawdust and Tinsel is a portrait of turn-of-the-century itinerant circus performers who are figures of ritual mortification before their public and, in a day and night of unmasking, before each other as well.

The circus owner, Albert (Åke Grönberg), and his bareback-rider girlfriend, Anne (Harriet Andersson), seek the rejections of, respectively, an ex-wife and a scornful actor from the more "respectable" provincial theater.