Ingmar Bergman	...	(Réalisateur)
Ingmar Bergman	...	(Scénariste)
Harriet Andersson	...	Agnes
Lars-Owe Carlberg	...	Spectator
Anders Ek	...	Isak, the priest
Inga Gill	...	Story teller
Henning Moritzen	...	Joakim, Maria's husband
Kari Sylwan	...	Anna
Ingrid Thulin	...	Karin
Liv Ullmann	...	Maria (and her mother)
Erland Josephson	...	David, the doctor
Georg Årlin	...	Fredrik, Karin's husband
Ingrid Bergman	...	Spectator (as Ingrid von Rosen)
Lena Bergman	...	Maria as a child
Malin Gjörup	...	Anna's daughter
Greta Johansson	...	Undertaker
Karin Johansson	...	Undertaker
Ann-Christin Lobråten	...	Spectator
Börje Lundh	...	Spectator
Rossana Mariano	...	Agnes as a child
Monika Priede	...	Karin as a child
Linn Ullmann	...	Maria's daughter

Commentaires: A haunting and shattering film experience.

Résumé: A family drama takes place in a mansion in the late 1800's. Karin and Maria watch over their sister Agnes' sickbed together with the servant Anna. Through flashbacks the lives of both sisters are described, which are full of lies, deceit, callousness, self despise, guilt and forbidden love. Agnes' dramatic death cramp arouses only aversion in them. They both retreat in their own way from her when she grasps for their hands.