Agnes (Ingrid Thulin), daughter of the goddess Indra, has come to Earth to learn about what it means to be human. She meets many people in her journey. The figures that guide her most are Alfred (Uno Henning), an officer who becomes a doctor; Axel (Allan Edwall), the lawyer that she weds, and the poet (Olof Widgren) who may be the author of her dreams. What she observes and experiences makes her pity mankind.Read More »
Ingmar Bergman
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Ingmar Bergman – Ett drömspel AKA A Dream Play (1963)
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Ingmar Bergman – Larmar och gör sig till AKA In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaIngmar BergmanSwedenInventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault. Together with another patient, Professor Osvald Vogler, they set up a film project: the living talkie. Before long, they set off on a frantic tour with their film, “The Joy of the Joyous Girl”… Written by Fredrik KlassonRead More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Ansikte mot ansikte AKA Face to Face (TV Version) (1976)
1971-1980DramaIngmar BergmanSwedenTVPsychiatrist Dr. Jenny Isaksson has temporally moved in with her grandparents in the house in which she grew up. In watching her grandmother lovingly take care of her ailing grandfather, remembering back to her childhood with her grandparents, spending time with her friend Tomas, and processing an event associated with one of her more severe cases, Jenny, in a fragile mental state, begins to have a nervous breakdown. In a semi-lucid state while conscious, and in semi-consciousness regarding reality when she dreams in her sleep, Jenny may begin to process her fragile mental state, especially if it is better to be alive or dead.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Fanny och Alexander [Extended TV Version] (1983) (HD)
Drama1981-1990Ingmar BergmanSwedenTVThrough the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, it is the warmest and most autobiographical film combining the director’s melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Fängelse AKA Prison (1949) (HD)
1941-1950DramaExperimentalIngmar BergmanSwedenA movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director’s, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher’s idea.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – Fanny och Alexander [Theatrical Version] (1982) (HD)
1981-1990DramaIngmar BergmanSwedenThrough the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Ingmar Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, it is the warmest and most autobiographical film combining the director’s melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality.Read More »
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Ingmar Bergman – De fördömda kvinnornas dans AKA The Condemned Women Dance (1976)
Ingmar Bergman1971-1980PerformanceShort FilmSwedenQuote:
“Described as a play for dancers rather than a ballet, De fordomda kvinnornas dans focuses on four women moving in a narrow closed room. They represent ‘generational’ women, i.e., women who live by performing a role imposed upon them by other women of many generations ago. Two of the dancers are damned souls come alive. The third is Death and the fourth a child, born free but forced into the role playing pattern. Ingmar Bergman and Donya Feuer got the idea for the dance play during the shooting of TrollflojtenRead More » -
Ingmar Bergman – En lektion i kärlek AKA A Lesson in Love (1954)
Arthouse1951-1960ComedyIngmar BergmanSwedenQuote:
One of Ingmar Bergman’s most satisfying marital comedies, A Lesson in Love stars the droll and sparkling duo of Eva Dahlbeck and Gunnar Björnstrand as a couple deep into their married years and seeking fresh pastures. Björnstrand’s gynecologist falls for one of his patients (Yvonne Lombard), while his wife flounces off to Copenhagen to renew her fling with a sculptor (Åke Grönberg). Deftly interspersing scenes of farce with interludes of tranquil reflection, A Lesson in Love serves as an aperitif before the full-blown comic brilliance of Smiles of a Summer Night the following year.Read More » -
Ingmar Bergman – Sommarlek AKA Summer Interlude (1951) (HD)
1951-1960DramaIngmar BergmanRomanceSwedenA lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.Read More »