Crisis DVD

Eighteen-year-old Nelly lives a quiet life in a small town with her foster mother. There, she makes a living giving piano lessons and letting a room to Ulf, who is in love with her.

Despite her financial problems, Nelly's foster mother manages to save enough money to buy Nelly a new dress to wear at a charity ball. However, when Nelly's real mother, Jenny, also buys a dress, Nelly wears this instead. Attracted by the glamorous garment and the promise of a more exciting life, Nelly leaves the small town to join her mother in Stockholm. Once there, she soon discovers that there is a darker side to human nature that she never knew existed when she lived in a small town.

Available for the first time, this powerful and evocative film was Bergman's directorial debut and bears many of the touches that would come to define the work of one of the world's most celebrated filmmakers.

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