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"This Can't Happen Here" is possibly Ingmar Bergman's most obscure movie, so a viewer, upon finally getting the chance to see it, might be hopeful to discover a hidden gem; unfortunately, the film is obscure for a reason. It is a dull and disjointed spy "thriller" about...well, the story is hard to follow but as far as I can tell it's about a briefcase containing a list of planted enemy agents and a traitor who wants to sell the case to the Americans. A few embryonic traces of Bergman can be found in the occasional philosophizing, like in the scene that the title is derived from, but most of the film looks like a standard B spy programmer of the era, only in Swedish language. Don't get your hopes up too high for this one. ** out of 4.