Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) Criterion DVD

• SWEDISH: 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
• New video essay by film historian Peter Cowie
• Archival television interview with director Alf Sjoberg
• A 2006 television documentary about the play Miss Julie
• Theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet w/ new essays by film scholars Peter Matthews & Birgitta Steene

Director: Alf Sjöberg
Anita Björk, Ulf Palme, Anders Henrikson, Lissi Alandh

Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjoberg's visually innovative, Cannes Grand Prix-winning adaptation of August Strindberg's renowned 1888 play brings to scalding life the excoriating words of the stage's preeminent surveyor of all things rotten in the state of male-female relations. Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when a wealthy businessman's daughter (Anita Bjork, in a fiercely emotional performance) falls for her father's bitter servant. Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Sjoberg's film was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema.