Loving Couples
– Three expectant mothers think back over their sex lives...
21 Dec 1964
Swedish
Mai Zetterling
David Hughes, Mai Zetterling, Agnes von Krusenstjerna (book)
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré, Anita Björk
Stockholm, 1915. Three women, Agda, Adele and Angela are about to give birth in a clinic. All three recall their past, especially the circumstances that led them to this hospital room. Agda, a housemaid made pregnant by a young middle-class man, has just married a homosexual artist. Adele, married to a farmer, suffers from frigidity, and is expecting a baby which is practically the product of a rape by her husband. As for Angela, a young woman from aristocratic background, she is waiting to give life to an illegitimate child after throwing herself into the arms of fifty-year-old Casanova. In these conditions will the three children to be born be happy?
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