Elvira Madigan is a 1967 Swedish romantic drama film directed by Bo Widerberg and starring Pia Degermark and Thommy Berggren.

It is based on the tragedy of the Danish slackrope dancer Hedvig Jensen, working under the stage name of Elvira Madigan at her stepfather's travelling circus, and her romance with Swedish nobleman lieutenant Sixten Sparre.

The couple are keeping their whereabouts private due to the scorn their scandalous relationship incurs, as well as to evade Sparre's regiment, who are in search of the deserter.

Despite the couple hiding their identities at a hotel, they are found out when authorities find the buttons on Sparre’s military uniform discarded in a field.

The couple resume their idyllic summer staying at various hotels and inns, but as their financial resources dwindle, they find themselves having to procure money wherever they can.

Sparre wins money by gambling, while Hedvig gets paid to entertain a party with her dancing and sells a picture of herself drawn by Toulouse-Lautrec.

[9][10] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times declared, "EXQUISITE is only the first word that surges in my mind as an appropriate description of 'Elvira Madigan,' a Swedish film by Bo Widerberg that was put on at the late show in Philharmonic Hall last night.

[3][12][13] Less positive responses "denounced the naive sentimentality of the storyline and accused Widerberg of having created an unintentionally amusing parody of high art".

[16][11][5] Describing it as breathing the "hippie mid-sixties", Edgardo Cozarinsky wrote: "Though the lovers are there as early instances of drop-outs, and several contemporary readings effortlessly emerge, Widerberg's real concern is with the sensuous presence of cream and berry juice on lips and fingertips…this affirmation in the face of death carries ... the weight of a modest but combative ideological point".

[17] In a 2005 review, critic Lee Broughton wrote, "Nearly forty years on, Elvira Madigan still has the power to impress both as an Art House film and a keenly observed love story.

"[16] David Parkinson of Empire said, "While Jorgen Persson's luminous naturally lit cinematography is invariably cited as the main reason for the enduring appeal of this fact-based melodrama, Widerberg captures the small humiliations of poverty with as much fidelity as the colours of summer, which are made all the more enchanting by the accompaniment of Vivaldi's Violin Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21.

[16] In August 2023, The Criterion Collection released Elvira Madigan as a Blu-ray disc in a 4-box set alongside Widerberg's films The Baby Carriage, Raven's End, and Ådalen 31.