PRISON

A film director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director is skeptical, but subsequent events in the life of a writer friend and his young sex worker lover make him reconsider the math teacher’s idea.

The first film Ingmar Bergman directed from his own original screenplay, Prison was executed on a minimal budget in exchange for absolute freedom. This is a self-reflexive, expressionist tale of love and faith—or the lack thereof—that fearlessly tackles some of the great existential questions.