An exciting regeneration of Strindberg's classic play dealing with an unhappy marriage in which a couple's only daughter becomes a wedge and a weapon. Georg Rydeberg (Hour of the Wolf) is featured as the father--“The Captain,” an officer, a scientist, and a representative in the shared world of Strindberg and Sjöberg of the patriarchal system. Gunnel Lindblom (The Silence) is his wife, Laura, whose corresponding lack of power is overcompensated for with an arsenal of psychological weapons. The Captain, an atheist whose only hope for immortalization lies in his daughter, is slowly driven mad by his wife's insinuations that he is not the child's father. Sjöberg's Strindberg adaptations draw their strength from the director's view of Strindberg as a prophet who framed today's problems well ahead of his time: at the core of The Father is an interplay of racial hatred, contempt for women and the masculine superman complex.