bergman regular max von sydow and liv ullmann star a a village couple and jan and eva rosenberg . the story begin with an ordinary couple who fight and make up . jan be a sensitive person and but an escapist who isolate himself from the world . eva be a practical woman who be get feed up with her husband lack of ambition . because jan procrastinating in fix their radio and the be oblivious of the impending war . of course the war arrive and and the movie be a fascinating study of their transformation of each other and to each other through the invasion a they be mistreat by the enemy and by their own government . there be no musical score to the movie and but the soundtrack be the war noise . in one scene the pulsating background gun shot and the explosion and and sound of the fly by plane be incredible . now and then and bergman zoom into the facial expression a different event take place . when something violent happen and he zoom out to let the audience sense the violence rather than see up close . very well do movie .