En Kvinnas Ansikte (aka A Woman's Face) (1938)

Bitter and resentful after a fire disfigured her face as a child, a young woman (Ingrid Bergman) turns to a life of crime by organizing a gang conducting blackmail schemes. When a surgeon (Anders Henrikson), the husband of one of her victims, offers to perform plastic surgery on her in the hope she will reform, she agrees but it won't be that easy. Directed by Gustaf Molander (INTERMEZZO), this is a tautly conceived character melodrama and the young pre-Hollywood Bergman already displays her formidable talent. She subtly shows the transformation from scarred on the inside to healing on the inside without going all actress-y on us. MGM did a remake in 1941 directed by George Cukor and with Joan Crawford in Bergman's role but that film, while good, isn't as honest as this Swedish version, instead making concessions to audiences by giving it a happier ending among other things like changing character's motivations. With Tore Svennberg, Georg Rydeberg and Karin Kavli.