this be one of the bleak and the most harrowing of bergman film i have see . i also think this be one of the most powerful film about the ugliness of war and what it do to the human soul . the couple of musician and who leave a big city for a remote island and make a living a farmer and find themselves capable of unspeakable and shameful act that would have ordinarily be impossible for them even imagine and a they struggle to survive horrible reality of war . they betray their soul and their friend and even each other in a desperate attempt to simply survive another day . liv ullmann and max von sydow be brilliant as usual a lose and confuse and and terrified couple that get catch in the midst of a civil war . 9 . 5/10 .