![]() ![]() ![]() The outstretched hand of the corpse within tries to pull Borg inside. One of its wheels gets caught up on a lamppost and a coffin falls out. He sees a clock with no hands and an old hearse approaching. Borg arrives at a house with boarded up windows in the old quarter of Stockholm. The film opens with a dream sequence that has been stolen from ever since. Despite his benevolent exterior, to which everyone pays tribute, he recognises in himself something arid and distant. On the 400-mile car journey the old man remembers his past - the girl he loved who married his brother instead, and his own bitterly unsuccessful marriage. At its centre is 76-year-old Professor Isak Borg, a distinguished medical scientist who travels from Stockholm to Lund with his daughter-in-law to receive an honorary doctorate. ![]()
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