The Girls
As they tour Sweden in a theatrical production of "Lysistrata", performing to often uncomprehending audiences, three women find their own lives and marriages mirrored in Aristophanes’s play. Soon, onstage drama, offstage reality, and surrealist fantasies begin to collide.
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A theather company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in wich the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading femeale actress, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humilianting circumstances to their men.
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- Director
- Mai Zetterling
- Starring
- Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Frank Sundström, Åke Lindström, Stig Engström
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