Playing Truant

Overview

High school student Margareta fall head over heels in love with a young doctor and announce her engagement to him to her parents. She quits school and move in with him in a large house. However, the life of a housewife soon becomes tedious. Her husband does not want her to study but secretly she enrolls in a high school again to be able to graduate. Her husband suspects funny business when she is spotted with her private tutor.

Directed by Schamyl Bauman

Top cast

Sickan Carlsson

Margareta Karlsson

Gunnar Björnstrand

Bertil Kronberg

Olof Winnerstrand

Paulus Blomvall

Viveca Serlachius

Gertrud 'Truttan' Karlberg

Dagmar Ebbesen

Hilda

Gösta Cederlund

Oskar Karlsson

Gull Natorp

Agda Karlsson

Anne-Margrethe Björlin

Helene Berglöf

Naima Wifstrand

Dehlin, principal

Jan Molander

Hjalmar Hammarlund

Mimi Pollak

Märta Hoffman

Maud Söderlund

Alice

Ivar Kåge

Andrén

Douglas Håge

Bertil's patient

Torsten Winge

Professor Berglöf

Wiktor Andersson

Wardrobe attendant

Sven-Eric Gamble

Man delievering flowers

Olga Appellöf

Teacher in Margareta's dream

Sif Ruud

Märta Hoffman's friend

John Botvid

Guest at the restaurant

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