About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is brought in a straitjacket by her husband and two psychiatric nurses through the Venice Carnival nocturnal antics to a mental hospital in the city. With her is a manuscript of her autobiography, which she calls "her child". The book is Agnes showdown with her family, and in flashbacks presented, Agnes progress from the author of innocent girls' books to serious and self-consuming novelist.
Directed by Mai Zetterling
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Stina Ekblad
Agnes von Krusenstjerna
Erland Josephson
David Sprengel
Philip Zandén
Adolf von Krusenstjerna
Lena T. Hansson
Ava de Geer
Peter Schildt
Gerhard Odencrantz
Catherine de Seynes
Eva von Krusenstjerna
Olof Thunberg
Ernst von Krusenstjerna
Börje Ahlstedt
Joachin Rosenhjelm
Inga Gill
Miss Tollen
Gösta Krantz
Felix
Anita Björk
Arvida
Heinz Hopf
Doctor Iller
Anja Landgré
Magnhild
Mimi Pollak
Miss Rosenhjelm
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