A maths teacher approaches a former pupil now a film director with an idea for a film: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. Upon considering the idea for his next project the director shares his memories with a journalist while filming an ill-fated passage from his past... Based in and around a movie studio this experimental and intriguing film is essentially a film within a film and is notable for being the first Bergman film in which Death a key leitmotif makes an appea
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Classic Swedish drama from acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman, one of his earliest experimental works. A mathematics teacher approaches one of his former pupils who has become a film director, and asks him to consider an idea for a film about a world where the Devil has declared Earth to be Hell. While the director considers this idea, he is interviewed by a journalist and finds himself recounting a terrible event from his past, that may have a bearing on his next project.
Maths teacher Anders Henrikson, recently released from a mental institution, decides to exorcise his inner demons in film form. Henrikson persuades film director Hasse Ekman, a former student, to put together a film depicting an Earth in the hands of the Devil. Ekman passes the idea on to writer Birger Malmstein, who coincidentally is currently going through Hell on Earth with his prostitute lover (Doris Svedlund). She, in turn, is being tormented by her former pimp.
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