- The original UK cinema release featured the pre-edited US print which was then cut by a further 35 secs by the BBFC to shorten some shots of Ester stroking Anna's hair and to replace subtitled references to erections and semen. The 1999 Tartan video is the complete version.
- According to a "Playboy" magazine interview with Ingmar Bergman conducted in 1964, "almost two minutes" were removed from the film's "erotic scenes" for its US release.
- A brief shot of Anna's naked torso, just prior to her having sex with the café waiter, has been excised from the U.S. version. Also, a subsequent scene in which the waiter is seen sodomizing Anna is cut at the beginning of the sex act. In the original version this sequence continues for another twenty seconds.
- Some sex scenes were cut in Norway to get an 16 rating when the movie was released theatrically in 1963, then the new 18 rating was introduced by law in 1969 and the movie passed the Norwegian Board of Film Classification uncut in 1970 with an 18 rating.
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