And some of these, largely because so many have badly copied, now look a little self-conscious- arty even. There are other Expressionist and certainly Freudian dream sequences in the picture, almost always with the old man appearing in them as his present self. The outstretched hand of the corpse within tries to pull Borg inside. One of its wheels gets caught up on a lamppost and a coffin falls out. He sees a clock with no hands and an old hearse approaching. Borg arrives at a house with boarded up windows in the old quarter of Stockholm. The film opens with a dream sequence that has been stolen from ever since. Despite his benevolent exterior, to which everyone pays tribute, he recognises in himself something arid and distant. On the 400-mile car journey the old man remembers his past - the girl he loved who married his brother instead, and his own bitterly unsuccessful marriage. At its centre is 76-year-old Professor Isak Borg, a distinguished medical scientist who travels from Stockholm to Lund with his daughter-in-law to receive an honorary doctorate.
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