The Girls (1968)
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.
Watch nowDrama, Comedy
Cast
- 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
Where to watch The Girls
Criterion Channel
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