Elvira Madigan is currently streaming on The Criterion Channel

Elvira Madigan (1967)86 minDrama, RomanceRating 69/100

Bo Widerberg reached new heights of visual lyricism with this art-house sensation, a sublime retelling of a real-life nineteenth-century romantic tragedy starring Pia Degermark and Tommy Berggren. Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus performer and a married lieutenant forsake everything to be together—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.

Cast: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen, Nina Widerberg, Yvonne Ingdal

Director: Bo Widerberg