6.1
American Son
2019
The Rite (1969)
March 25, 19691h 12mSV
6.8
93 votes
Overview
Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
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Ingmar BergmanWriter
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Swedish
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5.01969's <i>Riten</i> (The Rite) is one of the least known of Ingmar Bergman's films of the 1960s. Part of that is because the film was made for Swedish television instead of enjoying an international theatrical release. But another reason is that <i>Riten</i> is markedly inferior to his other films of the time. In an unnamed European country, a judge (Erik Hell) summons a traveling troupe of three actors to investigate whether the play they have brought to his community is pornographic. Two of the actors are overtly neurotic. Sebastian Fisher (Anders Ek) is prone to starting fires and afflic…
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