Gunnar Sjöberg

Gunnar Sjöberg

Born: March 25, 1909
Died: June 8, 1977
in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Movies for Gunnar Sjöberg...

Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Title: Behind the Scenes of 'Wild Strawberries'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2013
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes montage from Wild Strawberries on 16mm shot by Bergman himself, narrated by Jon Wengström. First presented in this form on the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray edition of the film.
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Pälsen
Title: Pälsen
Character: Doktor Henck
Released: December 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's rejected 1911 movie script, filmed in 1966 for TV as a silent film with a piano soundtrack, to match the time in which it was written for.
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Kurragömma
Title: Kurragömma
Character: Francesco Felici
Released: February 5, 1963
Type: Movie
An escaped convict assumes the identity of a professor in order to reveal a criminal syndicate who smuggle diamonds together with Parisian haute couture.
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Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Title: Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Character: Dr. Boekman
Released: January 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Set in 1860s Holland along the famed Zeider Zee — young Hans Brinker finds himself responsible for supporting his family after his father becomes injured in an accident. He and his sister, Gretel, travel to Amsterdam in search of funds to help pay for their father's operation. Their only hope lies in the city's annual ice skating race in which Hans must face off against his arch-rival, Ludwig Schimmel, in hopes of winning the prize money.
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Pärlemor
Title: Pärlemor
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Set in th 1930's depression times. A wealthy industrialist suffers a stroke. His wife takes over both family and business. The son worships his mother, but is forced to choose sides when he falls in love with the poor Aina.
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Hällebäcks gård
Title: Hällebäcks gård
Character: Johan
Released: September 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Farm girl Kerstin is the most popular girl in the village and the men are swarming around her. This results in jealousy, and the electrician Tage causes a fire on the farm, resulting in economic trouble for Kerstin's father. Suddenly grandfather's rich brother Arvid appears from America. Will he be able to solve the family's problems?
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Do You Believe in Angels?
Title: Do You Believe in Angels?
Character: Karl-Evert Raeder
Released: January 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Jan Froman is a young man with great plans for the future. He gets a job as an assistant janitor at a bank, but with inherited money he starts to buy and sell real estate which eventually increases in value. He falls in love with Margareta, whose father is a naval officer. Margareta is slighted by her fiance and follows Froman on a sailing trip in the archipelago. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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The Devil's Eye
Title: The Devil's Eye
Character: Marquis Giuseppe Maria de Macopanza
Released: October 17, 1960
Type: Movie
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
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The Die Is Cast
Title: The Die Is Cast
Character: Leonard Brett
Released: February 15, 1960
Type: Movie
A member of a highly successful crime drama series is found murdered in a television studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to clear his name. But who is the murderer and what is his motive?
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Playing on the Rainbow
Title: Playing on the Rainbow
Released: August 25, 1958
Type: Movie
The school counselor Vanja believe neither in love, marriage or a woman's subservient role to the man. One day she meets the student Björn. Their romance is full of problems. Along comes a man from Vanjas past.
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Brink of Life
Title: Brink of Life
Character: Dr. Nordlander
Released: March 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.
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A Goat in the Garden
Title: A Goat in the Garden
Character: Fabian
Released: February 17, 1958
Type: Movie
The wild Jon Esping bets that he will become a churchwarden. He, the upstart and the illiterate who can only write his name, a fox in business, a stud among women and a brute in general, wins the bet.
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Wild Strawberries
Title: Wild Strawberries
Character: Sten Alman
Released: December 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
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A Girl of Solbakken
Title: A Girl of Solbakken
Character: Doctor
Released: November 25, 1957
Type: Movie
From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is drawn to the sinister farmhand Aslak. After a fight with Thorbjörn's father, Aslak leaves the farm. Thorbjörn grows up and falls in love with the beautiful Synnöve.
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Night Light
Title: Night Light
Character: sergeant
Released: October 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.
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Responsibility
Title: Responsibility
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 26, 1957
Type: Movie
About the importance of personal responsibility and the advantages of sobriety.
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The Staffan Stolle Story
Title: The Staffan Stolle Story
Released: September 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Staffan Stolle becomes the sole heir to a rich and noble family when he is just a little boy. Early on he is engaged to be married to a girl he finds he does not love. Instead he flees the country only to return under a false name, looking for true love.
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The Butterfly and the Candle Flame
Title: The Butterfly and the Candle Flame
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Episodes about life and death.
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Seventh Heaven
Title: Seventh Heaven
Character: Bernhard Svanström
Released: June 11, 1956
Type: Movie
"Seventh Heaven" - Famous radio personality Willy Lorens has a big success with the radio series "Seventh Heaven." The amount of fan mail and attention eventually becomes too much for Willy, who suffers a minor collapse. Taken to a hospital where he meets Dr. Lovisa Sundelius, virtually the only woman in Sweden who do not admire the radio idol.
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The Happy Shoemaker
Title: The Happy Shoemaker
Character: Hjalmar "Hjalle" Ek
Released: September 19, 1955
Type: Movie
Sture and Birgit are secretly engaged. One day when they are kissing, they are discovered by Sture's father Dana. However, he promises not to reveal anything, as Sture would probably lose his job on Birgit's father Hjalle's shipyard. When Hjalle is forced by a usurer to pay back 23,000 on a loan, he gets problem. Dana promises to solve the problem, the question is just how. There is only one person that could help him, his childhood friend Gösta Hägg that nowadays is the director of a big company. But time passes quickly, and where is Mr. Hägg ...?
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Anaconda
Title: Anaconda
Character: Narrator
Released: September 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Documentary by Torgny Anderberg
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Nattens lekar
Title: Nattens lekar
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A boy lies and dreams in his bed in the kitchen, wakes up and takes a kitchen knife with him to bed and falls asleep. He dreams that he kills everyone at a game table, except for his father, whom he takes out on a tram ride. The boy wakes up again and waits for the father to come home and when he does, the mother and the father quarrel about something. The morning comes and the boy goes out, finally ends up at the beer café where the father and his beer friends are sitting.
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Sir Arne's Treasure
Title: Sir Arne's Treasure
Character: Johan III
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Three Scottish noblemen escape from Gripsholm Castle and breaks in to the home of Lord Arne. They kill everyone except for Lord Arne's adopted daughter Elsalill.
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Salka Valka
Title: Salka Valka
Released: November 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A coming of age story about young Salka Valka who lives in the small fishing village of Íseyri. She is doing well for herself as a partner in a small fishing boat, but people believe she is financed by her deceased mother's former fiance, Steinthór, who disappeared on their wedding day many years ago. Salka becomes infatuated with the idealistic Arnaldur who wants to start a workers union, much to the opposition of local entrepreneur Bogesen. The past comes to haunt her in the return of Steinthór but Salka fends off his advances only to lose the restless Arnaldur away. http://www.icelandicfilmcentre.is
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Seger i mörker
Title: Seger i mörker
Character: Gustaf De Laval
Released: September 16, 1954
Type: Movie
The story about Gustaf Dalén, the farm boy who became one of Sweden's greatest inventors.
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Travel in Sweden
Title: Travel in Sweden
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: July 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Images from places around Sweden, among them Gothenburg, Gotland, Mårbacka mansion and Norrland.
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Skuggan
Title: Skuggan
Character: Doctor
Released: April 25, 1953
Type: Movie
"The Shadow" - Erik Vender is a librarian and married to Vivianne. Vivianne was previously married to a well-known lawyer who died when their daughter was very small. One evening, Vivianne asks Erik to read a novel draft "Skuggan/The Shadow". The content strongly touches Erik. Vivianne reveals that it is her ex-husband that wrote the script.
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Sabotage
Title: Sabotage
Released: February 7, 1952
Type: Movie
With the support of dramatic staging, a narrative teaches about sabotage and espionage directed at Sweden.
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Han glömde henne aldrig
Title: Han glömde henne aldrig
Character: Nilsson
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
American businessman Chris Johnson spent WW2 in Sweden and fell in love with a nurse, Karin Engström. He lost contact with her after war and now, seven years later, he returns to Sweden on a business trip, trying to find her again.
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The Nuthouse
Title: The Nuthouse
Character: Kapten Hansson (archive footage)
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
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Två trappor över gården
Title: Två trappor över gården
Character: Reverend
Released: February 6, 1950
Type: Movie
The rootless, misfit artist Bengt Hallberg escapes from a mental hospital. The head doctor believes him to be a hopeless case and dangerous for the environment. Bengt looks up Inga Larsson, the only person that matters to him.
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Sin
Title: Sin
Character: Martin Alm
Released: December 22, 1948
Type: Movie
Fredrik seduces the office girl Anna. She becomes helplessly passionately in love. Fredrik cheat Anna of all her savings. He intends to manufacture beauty products. To market the product he forge the signature of a wealthy aunt of Anna.
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Nattvaktens hustru
Title: Nattvaktens hustru
Released: October 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Ingegerd Lindberg is coming to Stockholm from the countryside. The first person she meets at the Central Station is Curt Brehmer.
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Ungdom i fara
Title: Ungdom i fara
Character: Bo Wärn
Released: November 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A young man with a messy background stands trial for car theft. He gets away with a suspended sentence. With the help of a social worker, he gets on the right side of life — until a criminal friend shows up.
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The Serious Game
Title: The Serious Game
Character: Baron Freutiger
Released: November 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true. While Arvid struggling to create the basis for their existence, Lydia's thirst for the good life leads her to marrying an older wealthy man.
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Svarta rosor
Title: Svarta rosor
Released: August 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A young woman is predestined to marry her fathers companion. During the summer she falls in love with an artist. The intended husband detects the love affair and confronts the couple.
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Rosen på tistelön
Title: Rosen på tistelön
Character: Arnman
Released: August 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.
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Prince Gustaf
Title: Prince Gustaf
Character: Carl Nyraeus
Released: November 29, 1944
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 1800s Swedish prince Gustaf meets the actress Anna Maria Wastenius and falls in love with her, but it is an impossible love story due to the rules of society.
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Den heliga lögnen
Title: Den heliga lögnen
Character: Axel Dehlin
Released: October 23, 1944
Type: Movie
Helen Wahlman is the hostess of a luxury hotel in the mountains. Her husband fled to Chile 15 years ago, after being guilty of fraud, and was killed there. Helen's image of marriage is just dark memories. A few days before Christmas, Helen gets a shock as her husband appears from the dead at the hotel.
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His Excellency
Title: His Excellency
Character: Max Karbe
Released: March 3, 1944
Type: Movie
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
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The Brothers' Woman
Title: The Brothers' Woman
Character: Nicklas Botvide
Released: November 22, 1943
Type: Movie
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
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Jag dräpte
Title: Jag dräpte
Character: Martin
Released: October 26, 1943
Type: Movie
"I Slew" - Hospital drama of a doctor who thinks that he killed a patient on the operating table.
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Life and Death
Title: Life and Death
Character: Sergeant Lundblad
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Thriller set in northern Sweden during WWII where a regiment of ski-borne soldiers and guests in a tourist hotel experience and investigate acts of treason.
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Women in Captivity
Title: Women in Captivity
Character: Pastor Brobäck
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A priest decides to engage himself socially in prison. In the cells he meets a number of women with different fates. One is Mary, a young honest woman gone wrong.
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The Priest Who Knocked Out
Title: The Priest Who Knocked Out
Character: Artist
Released: March 6, 1943
Type: Movie
The boxing promoter Charlie returns from America to Sweden and needs to find a professional Swedish boxer for an upcoming fight. By chance Charlie watches Björn Harring fight off some hoodlums. Charlie sees great potential in Björn and wants to promote him for an upcoming fight, the problem is though that Björn is studying theology and is soon to become a priest. This might not look too good in a prejudiced society of the 40s with a boxing priest, but Charlie is determent to find a way.
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Elvira Madigan
Title: Elvira Madigan
Character: Frans, löjtnant
Released: February 19, 1943
Type: Movie
The tragic love story between a line dancer and an army officer.
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Örlogsmän
Title: Örlogsmän
Character: Kärre
Released: January 25, 1943
Type: Movie
The trio Erik, Arne and Ingrid have been friends since childhood, the two boys always competing for the affection of Ingrid. At the naval academy Erik gets into a fistfight and is expelled, to instead become a captain of a trading ship. Before he leaves Ingrid and Erik are engaged in secret. Later, when Erik is believed to be lost at sea, Ingrid instead gets engaged with Arne.
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I brist på bevis
Title: I brist på bevis
Character: Prosecutor
Released: January 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
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The Heavenly Play
Title: The Heavenly Play
Character: God's Angel
Released: December 21, 1942
Type: Movie
"The Heavenly Play" - Mats Ersson is engaged to Marit and they plan to get married in the spring. But when the plague comes, the people accuse Marit of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. Mats can not understand the divine justice and decides to go to paradise and ask God himself. It becomes a journey where he meets the prophets, king Solomon and finally God himself.
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Ride Tonight!
Title: Ride Tonight!
Released: November 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Oppressed by landowners, a peasant uprising ensues as an outlaw farmer refuses to pay taxes in this film adapted from Vilhelm Moberg's novel.
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General von Döbeln
Title: General von Döbeln
Character: Officer at Vaxholm
Released: October 26, 1942
Type: Movie
1813. The Swedish army is fighting in the War of the Sixth Coalition. The popular general Von Döbeln is arrested for sending the army against the French in breach of orders by the crown prince. At the court martial he is sentenced to death but is pardoned by the king and sent to prison instead. A group of conspirators are planning to set him free and make him their leader in a coup d'etat.
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Snapphanar
Title: Snapphanar
Character: Långe-Tuve
Released: December 26, 1941
Type: Movie
In an occupied country, the people rise to throw off the occupants. This includes Jens the farmer and his three sons who successfully perform sneak attacks on the invading army.
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The First Squadron
Title: The First Squadron
Character: Captain Hansson
Released: September 23, 1941
Type: Movie
The year is 1941 and Nazi Germany is at its peak. Hitler's army is storming into Russia. Sweden stands lonely and isolated while the air force is training intensely due to a coming attack. The squadron leader pushes his men at its hardest. It's a constant game with death where death unfortunately often wins.
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Landstormens lilla argbigga
Title: Landstormens lilla argbigga
Character: Engineer
Released: March 22, 1941
Type: Movie
Spoiled upper class girl must join a home defense unit to learn military drill and fall in love with a lieutenant.
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En kvinna ombord
Title: En kvinna ombord
Character: Blomqvist
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
In the beginning of WW II a Swedish ship in a northern French port is exposed to German air raids. The captain take a chance to leave the port without permission. A stranded woman seize the chance to get home to Sweden.
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June Night
Title: June Night
Character: Nils Asklund
Released: April 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past.
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Steel
Title: Steel
Character: Lars Gouveng
Released: February 18, 1940
Type: Movie
The Forshyttan steel-mill has been owned by the Ancker family for generations. But competition is hard. When the son Bengt Ancker comes back from abroad he has an idea for success: a lighter steel with better quality. But a lot of money is necessary to develop his idea and the only way to raise the necessary capital is to sell the company to their competitor - Manchester Steel Company. But the workers are concerned that this could threaten their job-security
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Emelie Högqvist
Title: Emelie Högqvist
Character: Knut Almlöf
Released: December 26, 1939
Type: Movie
Emelie Högqvist is an actress at the Royal Theatre who gets involved in an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince Oscar.
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Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets
Title: Rejoice While You're Young, Fellow Cadets
Released: August 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Knut is a farmer's son who wants to get an education and see the world.
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A Woman's Face
Title: A Woman's Face
Character: Harald Berg
Released: October 31, 1938
Type: Movie
A cynical woman with a disfigured face—a hardened criminal—gets an opportunity to change her ways when she meets a sympathetic plastic surgeon. She leaves her old life behind, but soon her old friends catch up with her.