Doctor Johan and attorney Marianne are a successful professional couple who juggle their careers with marriage and children. Over many years of love and turmoil, their relationship progresses through multiple stages: matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partnerships.

Attesting to the life-changing force of great cinema, this devastating classic from Ingmar Bergman sent separation rates in Sweden soaring. Reckoning with the effect of modern gender relations on domestic bliss, terrific performances from Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson wound with enduring insight.