Encounter with Life (Swedish: Möte med livet) is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Gösta Werner and starring Doris Svedlund, Per Oscarsson and Arnold Sjöstrand.Qvist & Von Bagh p.121 It was shot at the Råsunda Studios in Stockholm and location shooting in Nyköping. The film's sets were designed by the art director Nils Svenwall.
Synopsis Gun and Robert are in love with each other, but while he is away doing military service they both have relationships with others. She falls pregnant and then miscarries, while he contracts syphilis. In spite of this they work to forge a successful marriage when he returns.
Cast Doris Svedlund as Gun Per Oscarsson as Robert Arnold Sjöstrand as Dr. Almer Britta Billsten as Karin Märta Dorff as Östermalm lady who performs abortions Sif Ruud as Mrs. Jakobsson Lars Ekborg as Klas Arne Ragneborn as Göran Ingrid Thulin as Viola Peter Lindgren as Gun's Friend Kjerstin Dellert as Singer Björn Berglund as Clerk Bengt Blomgren as Sven Margit Carlqvist as Klas' Girlfriend Yvonne Lombard as Woman-friend Kurt-Olof Sundström as Kurt
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Bibliography Qvist, Per Olov & von Bagh, Peter. Guide to the Cinema of Sweden and Finland. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
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