Peter Egermann, an outwardly stable businessman, suffers from depression, feelings of sexual inadequacy, murderous impulses, and barely suppressed rage toward his wife, Katarina. These conditions lead to a crime that painfully illustrates the couple’s marital discord.

Ingmar Bergman’s only German production is a surprising spin-off of Scenes from a Marriage that gives center stage to that film’s couple, revealing their relationship’s secrets in a more extreme filmmaking style. A chilling look at gender dynamics, which Bergman himself declared was one of his best!