The Banquet

The Banquet
  • Release date: 18 Dec 1948
  • Release year: 1948
  • Runtime: 106 minutes
  • Country: Sweden
  • Keywords: written and directed by cast member, adultery, marriage as hell, upper class, based on novel
Plot:
Jacob Cotten is a rich banker quickly approaching his 60th birthday. He is concerned that neither of his sons are willing or able to be in charge of the bank. One is a spoiled parasite unable to do an honest day's work; the other has devoted his life to the communist youth club. Meanwhile, his beloved daughter Vica is unable to divorce her masochistic husband and gets herself a lover, an idealistic young medical student.
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