82 minutes
10/7/1972
In this Danish suspense film, the foibles of the psychological helping professions are wryly surveyed. A woman has murdered her husband. That's clear enough. Now the woman is in a psychiatric hospital because it seemed clear to the judges that she was not fully competent. Her doctor, who is helping her a great deal, has problems of his own. First, he is against the cookie-cutter treatment practices of his hospital, second, he is on shaky mental ground himself. Then he violates his therapeutic ethics by carrying on an affair with the woman he is treating.
Lotte Tarp
as Birthe Kold
Erik Wedersøe
as Torben, Psychiatrist
Jens Østerholm
as Birthe's Husband
Anne-Lise Gabold
as Torben's Ex Wife
Lisbeth Movin
as Birthe's Mother
Georg Kringelbach
as Chief Psychiatrist
Erik Nørgaard
Niels Barfoed
Finn Jørgensen
Danny Andersen
Steen Kaalø
Vera Gebuhr
Gerda Madsen
Elsebeth Reingaard
Rachel Bæklund
Erik Kjærsgaard
Peter Ronild
Lise Schrøder
Inger Stender
Manja Mourier
as Patient
Hans Christian Ægidius