Two People

Made in Sweden (Dreyer evading the Germans' response to his previous film), this chamber drama about a marriage on the rocks takes place in 'real time', entirely in one apartment, and has a cast of two. Though the director didn't get the actors he wanted (and it sometimes shows), the film - something of a rarity - remains fascinating for its use of formal elements to highlight the couple's sense of isolation and entrapment, and for having what was for Dreyer an unusually eventful narrative.