Rabies

6

Sweden

Drama TV Movie

89 min

1958

Max von Sydow Toivo Pawlo Axel Düberg Tor Isedal Dagny Lind Folke Sundquist Bibi Andersson Åke Fridell Gunnel Lindblom Marianne Stjernqvist

Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence on to another. Filmed for Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Olle Hedberg’s morality play presents human behavior as a relentless chain of transferred suffering.