Rabies (1958)

Release Date: 1958-11-07
Runtime: 1h 29min
Production Company: Sveriges Radio
Production Country: Sweden
Director: Ingmar Bergman

Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence on to another. Filmed for Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Olle Hedberg’s morality play presents human behavior as a relentless chain of transferred suffering.