Adapted from a 1905 epistolary novel by Hjalmar Söderberg, Doktor Glas is a tale of sexual obsession and moral hypocrisy told in flashbacks. “A superb and sensitive film. . . . Mai Zetterling has come into her own not only as a stylist but as a filmmaker of stature whose perceptions are without pretension, sensitivity without sentimentality. . . . Per Oscarsson is shattering as the doctor . . . Lone Hertz is remarkable as the pretty and rather foolish wife . . . and Ulf Palme is both repulsive and pitiable as the ungodly pastor. . . . But the star is Mai Zetterling, dealing with the darkest of passions, she has achieved a lyricism of tone and a throbbing humanism that will not leave you untouched” (Judith Crist, New York Magazine).