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The Girls
SWEDEN · 1968

The Girls

Mai Zetterling
woman director
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Synopsis

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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