In the spring of 1965, Ingmar Bergman was admitted to the Sophia Hospital in Stockholm for double pneumonia and acute penicillin poisoning. While hospitalized, he created the basic script of this movie. Inspired by August Strindberg's one-act play "The Stronger", an existence which consisted of dead people, brick walls, and some dreary park trees and conceived as a sonata for two instruments.

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