The Touch

Some Swedish boredom gets excavated by an American with a shovel and a past. A housewife entangles herself with a Holocaust-survivor archaeologist, their desire muddled by his unhealed wounds. The film settles for plausible murmurs instead of fireworks.

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Ingmar Bergman directed The Touch in 1971. See Ingmar Bergman's full filmography, where to start with Ingmar Bergman, or where to go after you've seen everything by Ingmar Bergman.

The Touch was released in 1971 (SV original-language production), with a runtime of 115 minutes.