With Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow in Shame.
Eva and Jan are musicians. They have retired to an island after disbanding their orchestra. War rages on the mainland.
They go into town to sell berries, and on the way they meet Filip, a fisherman, and the mayor, Colonel Jacobi. Invading troops have landed, and a resistance on the island is being organized. Eva and Jan visit their friend, the antique store owner Lobelius. When they return home, Eva tells Jan of her desire to have a child. The war comes closer; bombs are falling. Jan and Eva try to escape but are taken prisoners. Jan is questioned by the enemy. He is deathly afraid.
The island's defense drives off the invaders. Suspected collaborators are brought to a school building and interrogated. Colonel Jacobi frees Jan and Eva. Jacobi seeks Eva's love, then gives her his life savings. He is arrested as a collaborator with the enemy. Jan takes possession of Eva's money and refuses to help Colonel Jacobi. Having been given the order by the fisherman Filip, he executes the colonel.
Filip's men search in vain for the money Eva received from Jacobi. Then they burn down Jan and Eva's house. In a greenhouse the couple encounter a young deserter, intending to escape from the island. Jan shoots him, and using Jacobi's money, he buys fares for himself and Eva on a refugee boat. Far out to sea the boat gets stuck in a wide-reaching cluster of drifting soldiers' corpses.
1967
THE RITUAL/THE RITE (Riten)
Production: Cinematograph. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Art direction, costumes: Mago (Max Goldstein). Editing: Siv Kanälv. Premiere: March 25, 1969, on TV. Length: 72 minutes. With Ingrid Thulin (Thea Winkelmann), Anders Ek (Sebastian Fischer), Gunnar Björnstrand (Hans Winkelmann), Erik Hell (Judge Ernst Abrahamsson), Ingmar Bergman (clergyman).
Three internationally famous performance artists — Hans Winkelmann, Thea Winkelmann, and Sebastian Fischer — have had one of their stage numbers censored and reported. They are called for an inquiry by the investigatory judge Ernst Abrahamsson. Thea Winkelmann had been married to another member of the company, who was killed during a violent argument with Winkelmann. Thea has since married Hans Winkelmann.
In the examination room the judge first meets with all three of them, then speaks with them one by one. Between these scenes, the artists are together, two at a time — Sebastian and Thea, Thea and Hans, and Hans and Sebastian. In the last scene the three perform the staged ritual for the judge, who suffers a heart attack.
1968
THE PASSION OF ANNA/A PASSION (En passion)
Production: Svensk Filmindustri, Cinematograph. Distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Art direction: P. A. Lundgren. Editing: Siv Kanalv. Premiere: November 10, 1969, at Spegeln. Length: 101 minutes. With Max von Sydow (Andreas Winkelman), Liv Ullmann (Anna Fromm), Bibi Andersson (Eva Vergérus), Erland Josephson (Elis Vergérus), Erik Hell (Johan Andersson), Sigge Fürst (Verner), Svea Hoist (his wife), Annika Kronberg (Katarina), Hjördis Petterson (Johan's sister), Lars-Owe Carlberg and Brian Wikstrom (policemen), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Malin Ek, Britta Brunius, Brita Öberg, and Marianne Karlbeck (women in dream sequence).
Andreas Winkelman is repairing the roof of his house. He lives alone on an island. Three mock suns can be seen in the sky.
Andreas meets Johan, a poor recluse. Anna Fromm, another islander, comes to use Andreas's telephone. Anna forgets her purse at his house. He reads a letter that reveals that Anna's husband wants to leave her. Anna Fromm is living at the house of Elis Vergérus, a successful architect, and his wife, Eva. During a dinner party, Andreas gets to know them. Elis's hobby is to collect photographs of people. Elis says that Eva was the mistress of Anna's husband. Anna tries to convince everyone of her perfect marriage. When Elis is away on business, Eva comes to Andreas and stays with him all night. Andreas finds out that Anna's husband and son have been killed in a traffic accident when Anna was driving.
A farmer on the island finds a number of his sheep fatally wounded. Suspicion falls on Johan, the recluse. Elis helps Andreas with his business and discovers why he has turned his back on society.
Anna and Andreas begin to live together. Anna tells him about her marriage and the accident. She tries to get Andreas to admit to his relationship with Eva. The police find Johan. He has hanged himself.
Violence breaks out in Andreas and Anna's relationship. A fire engine drives past. Somebody has set fire to a cattle shed. Anna picks up Andreas by the fire. In the car he asks her to give him back his solitude. Their relationship has been based on lies. Andreas gets out of the car. He doesn't know which direction to take and collapses on the road.
1969
THE FÅRÖ DOCUMENT 1969
(Fårödokument 1969)
Production: Cinematograph. Director: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Editing: Siv Lundgren-Kanälv. Premiere: January 1, 1970, on TV. Length: 78 minutes. With Ingmar Bergman as the reporter, and actual inhabitants of Få rö.
1969/70
THE RESERVATION (Reservatet)
Director: Jan Molander. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producers: Bernt Callenbo and Hans Sackemark. Editing: Inger Burman (color). Art direction: Bo Lindgren and Henny Noremark. Premiere: October 28, 1970, on TV. Length: 95 minutes. With Gunnel Lindblom (Anna), Per Myrberg (Andreas), Erland Josephson (Elis), Georg Funkquist (the father), Toivo Pawlo (Albert), Elna Gistedt (Berta), Erik Hell (director general), Göran Graffman (Bauer), Borje Ahlstedt (Feldt), Sif Ruud (Miss Prakt), Barbro Larsson (Karin), Helena Brodin (Nurse Ester), Olof Bergström (Dr. Farman), Gun Arvidsson (Magda Farman), Catherine Berg (Elis's wife), Claes Thelander (Fredrik Sernelius), Irma Christenson (Inger Sernelius), Leif Liljeroth (Sten Ahlman), Gun Andersson (Petra Ahlman), Per Sjöstrand (Count Albrekt), Margaretha Byström (Karin Albrekt).
1970
THE TOUCH (Beröringen)
Production: Cinematograph, ABC Pictures (New York). Distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Music: Carl Michael Bellman, William Byrd, Peter Covent. Art direction: P. A. Lundgren. Editing: Siv Lundgren. Premiere: August 30, 1971, at Spegeln. Length: 115 minutes. With Elliott Gould (David Kovac), Bibi Andersson (Karin Vergérus), Max von Sydow (Andreas Vergérus), Sheila Reid (Sara, David's sister), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (Karin's mother), Åke Lindström (Dr. Holm), Mimmo Wåhlander (nurse), Elsa Ebbesen (head of hospital kitchen), Staffan Hallerstam (Anders Vergérus), Maria Nolgård (Agnes Vergérus), Karin Nilsson (Vergérus's neighbor), Erik Nyhlén (archaeologist), Margaretha Byström (Andreas Vergérus's secretary), Alan Simon (curator at museum), Per Sjöstrand (curator), Aino Taube (woman on staircase), Ann-Chris tin Lobråten (museum worker), Carol Zavis (flight attendant), Dennis Gotobed (British civil servant), Bengt Ottekil (bellhop).
1971
CRIES AND WHISPERS (Viskningar och rop)
Production: Cinematograph, the Film Institute, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Harriet Andersson, Sven Nykvist. Distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Art direction: Marika Vos. Editing: Siv Lundgren. Premiere: March 5, 1973, at Spegeln. Length: 91 minutes. With Harriet Andersson (Agnes), Kari Sylwan (Anna), Ingrid Thulin (Karin), Liv Ullmann (Maria/Maria's mother), Anders Ek (Pastor Isak), Inga Gill (the storyteller), Erland Josephson (David, a physician), Henning Moritzen (Joakim, a cabinet member and Maria's husband), Georg Årlin (Fredrik, a diplomat and Karin's husband), Linn Ullmann (Maria's daughter), Greta and Karin Johansson (mortician's helpers), Rosanna Mariano (young Agnes), Malin Gjörup (Anna's daughter), Lena Bergman (young Maria), Ingrid von Rosen, Ann-Christin Lobråten, Börje Lundh, and Lars-Owe Carlberg (audience members at picture exhibit), Monika Priede (young Karin).
With the ringing of bells and red colors, with cries and whispers, the day d
awns in a residential park. By Agnes's sickbed, her sister Maria has kept vigil all night. Agnes awakens. She writes in her diary. Anna, the servant, serves coffee. The third sister, Karin, enters the room. The physician, David, makes a house call. He tells Karin that the end is near. When David is ready to go, Maria calls for him. They fall into each other's arms.
Thinking about color with Sven Nykvist during the filming of Cries and Whispers.
Flashback: Anna's daughter has taken ill, and Maria has called the doctor. After his examination of the child, Maria invites David to stay for a meal. Her husband, Joakim, is staying in town, and Agnes and Karin are in Italy. The guest room is readied for David; Maria comes to him. In the morning she tells her husband that she called the doctor. When she later knocks on the door to his office, she finds him with a knife in his chest. He begs her to help him.
In the present, it is now evening. Agnes calls for Anna, who comes to her bed and crawls in with her. Agnes is in pain. Anna consoles her. During the night Anna awakens the sisters. Agnes has taken a turn for the worse. The sisters wash her and change her nightgown. She falls asleep while Maria reads to her from The Pickwick Papers. Agnes's death struggle ensues. Anna stays close to her. In the adjacent room her sisters Karin and Maria wait. A priest comes to pray for Agnes's soul.
Flashback: Karin and her husband, Fredrik, are staying temporarily at the manor (where they are now). They sit at the dinner table, silent. Karin breaks a wine glass. Karin gets ready for bed. Alone, she wounds herself by putting a sliver of glass — to damage and be damaged — inside her vagina. She walks into the bedroom to her husband.
In the present, Maria is caressing her sister Karin's cheek. Reluctantly Karin lets her do it. Then she accuses Maria of being false.
In the dark house Anna hears screams. She goes in to Agnes, who says, “I'm dead but I can't leave you.” In icy terror, her two sisters reject her. Anna stays with the crying Agnes.
After the funeral Karin and Maria get ready to leave. Anna remains, now alone in the house. She reads in Agnes's diary about her gratefulness toward life.
1972
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE
(Scener ur ett äktenskap)
Production: Cinematograph. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Art direction: Björn Thulin. Editing: Siv Lundgren. Part 1: “Innocence and Panic” — premiere April 11, 1973, on TV. Part 2: “The Art of Sweeping Things under the Carpet” — premiere April 18, 1973, on TV. Part 3: “Paula” — premiere April 25, 1973, on TV. Part 4: “The Valley of Tears” — premiere May 2, 1973, on TV. Part 5: “The Illiterates” — premiere May 9, 1973, on TV. Part 6: “In the Middle of the Night in a Dark House Somewhere in the World” — premiere May 16, 1973, on TV. Length: Around 49 minutes per episode. A theatrical version was created for the United States and other parts of the world in 1974; length, 155 minutes. With Liv Ullmann (Marianne), Erland Josephson (Johan), Bibi Andersson (Katarina), Jan Malmsjö (Peter), Anita Wall (Mrs. Palm), Rosanna Mariano and Lena Bergman (the children Eva and Karin), Gunnel Lindblom (Eva), Barbro Hiort af Ornäs (Mrs. Jacobi), Wenche Foss (mother), Bertil Norströ m (Arne).
1974
THE MAGIC FLUTE (Tröllflojten)
Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman, based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte with a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. Producer: Måns Reuterswärd. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Music: The Radio Choir, Swedish Radio's Symphony Orchestra, and conductor Eric Ericson. Art direction: Henny Noremark. Editing: Siv Lundgren. Premiere: January 1, 1975, on TV; shown at Röda Kvarn movie theater October 4, 1975. Length: 135 minutes. With Jösef Kostlinger (Tamino), Irma Urrila (Pamina), Håkan Hagegård (Papageno), Elisabeth Erikson (Papagena), Britt-Marie Aruhn (first woman), Kirsten Vaupel (second woman), Birgitta Smiding (third woman), Ulrik Cold (Sarastro), Birgit Nordin (queen of the night), Ragnar Ulfung (Monostatos), Erik Saéden (speaker), Gösta Prüzelius (first priest), Ulf Johanson (second priest), Hans Johansson and Jerker Arvidson (guards in the House of Trials), Urban Malmberg, Ansgar Krook, and Erland von Heijne (boys), Lisbeth Zachrisson, Nina Harte, Helena Högberg, Elina Lehto, Lena Wennergren, Jane Darling, and Sonja Karlsson (maidens), Einar Larsson, Siegfried Svensson, Sixten Fark, SvenEric Jacobsson, Folke Johnsson, Gösta Backelin, Arne Hendriksen, Hans Kyhle, and Carl Henric Qvarfordt (priests).
1975
FACE TO FACE (Ansikte mot ansikte)
Production: Cinematograph. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Art direction: Anne Hagegård, Peter Kropénin. Editing: Siv Lundgren. Part 1: “The Departure” — premiere April 28, 1976, on TV. Part 2: “The Border”— premiere May 5, 1976, on TV. Part 3: “The Twilight Land” — premiere May 12, 1976, on TV. Part 4: “The Return” — premiere May 19, 1976, on TV. Length: 50 minutes per episode. A theatrical version was created for the United States and other parts of the world; length, 135 minutes. With Liv Ullmann (Dr. Jenny Isaksson), Erland Josephson (Dr. Tomas Jacobi), Aino Taube (grandmother), Gunnar Björnstrand (grandfather), Sif Ruud (Elisabeth Wankel), Sven Lindberg (Erik, Jenny's husband), Tore Segelcke (woman), Kari Sylwan (Maria), Ulf Johanson (Helmuth Wankel), Gösta Ekman (Mikael Stromberg), Kristina Adolphson (nurse Veronica), Marianne Aminoff (Jenny's mother), Gösta Prüzelius (Jenny's father), Birger Malmsten and Göran Stangertz (rapists), Rebecca Pawlo and Lena Olin (saleswomen).
Jenny is a psychologist, married to a gifted colleague, and the mother of a teenage daughter. Her husband is at a convention in Chicago and her daughter at horseback-riding camp. Jenny herself is going to stay with her grandparents in their old apartment and looks forward to a calm, peaceful work period.
With Tamino (Josef Köstlinger) in The Magic Flute.
The first night at her grandparents' she is awakened by a stranger, a woman, who takes shape in the room and tries to tell her something.
The following day Jenny speaks to a colleague, Dr. Wankel, about Maria, a case at the psychiatric clinic. Jenny has a violent confrontation with Maria. She then goes to a party given by Dr. Wankel's wife. There she meets Dr. Tomas Jacobi, a relative of her patient Maria. They have dinner together and then go to Tomas's house. In the morning she is awakened by a phone call and is asked to return to her empty house.
There she finds Maria and two men. One of these men tries to rape Jenny. Thoroughly shaken, she calls Tomas Jacobi. They meet for a concert the same night and return to his house. Jenny takes a sleeping pill, and when they go to bed, Jenny tells Tomas about the attempted rape. She begins to laugh. The laughter transforms itself into convulsive sobs. Tomas drives her to her grandparents' apartment.
When her grandmother awakens her, she finds she has slept more than twenty-four hours. It is Saturday morning, and her old grandparents are going to stay with friends for the weekend. Jenny falls asleep again and is awakened Sunday morning by the church bells ringing. She calls Tomas, and when she hangs up, the strange woman appears in her room again. Frightened, Jenny dictates a letter to her husband on a tape recorder. Then she swallows all her sleeping pills.
Jenny is reborn forty-three hours later in a tempest of cramps and screams in an intensive care ward. When she dozes off again, she moves around in her dreams. She awakens, finding Tomas by her side. She dreams about her dead parents. When she awakens the next time, her husband, Erik, is with her. He has come directly from the airport. They talk, exhausted by the emotional upheaval and sorrow. Jenny sinks back into her dreams.
Jenny tells Tomas about her childhood. She loses consciousness again and enters new dreams. She attends her own funeral. Tomas says good-bye. Jenny is visited by her daughter, Anna. She tells her daughter that she has tried to take her own life. They speak to each other but lack real communication.
The same day Jenny returns to her grandparents' apartment. She watches the intimacy between these two old people in their slow movement toward death. During
a walk she encounters the woman again. This time she helps her cross the street.
1976
THE SERPENT'S EGG
(Ormens ägg; Das Schlangenei)
Production: Rialto Film (Berlin), Dino De Laurentiis Corp. (Los Angeles). Distribution: Fox-Stockholm. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Dino De Laurentiis. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist (color). Music: Rolf Wilhelm. Art direction: Rolf Zehetbauer. Editing: Petra von Oelffen. Premiere: October 28, 1977, at Röda Kvarn. Length: 119 minutes. With Liv Ullmann (Manuela Rosenberg), David Carradine (Abel Rosenberg), Gert Fröbe (police commissioner Bauer), Heinz Bennent (Hans Vergérus), James Whitmore (priest), Glynn Turman (Monroe), Georg Hartmann (Hollinger), Edith Heerdegen (Mrs. Holle), Kyra Mladeck (Miss Dorst), Fritz Strassner (Dr. Soltermann), Hans Quest (Dr. Silbermann), Wolfgang Weiser (civil servant), Paula Braend (Mrs. Hemse), Walter Schmidinger (Solomon), Lisi Mangold (Mikaela), Grischa Huber (Stella), Paul Bürks (cabaret comedian), Isolde Barth, Rosemarie Heinikel, Andrea L'Arronge, and Beverly McNeely (girls in uniform), Toni Berger (Mr. Rosenberg), Erna Brunell (Mrs. Rosenberg), Hans Eichler (Max), Harry Kalenberg (court physician), Gaby Dohm (woman with baby), Christian Berkel (student), Paul Burian (guinea pig), Charles Regnier (physician), Giinter Meisner (prisoner), Heide Picha (wife), Giinter Malzacher (husband), Hubert Mittendorf (consoler), Hertha von Walther (woman in street), Ellen Umlauf (hostess), Renate Grosser and Hildegard Busse (prostitutes), Richard Bohne (policeman), Emil Feist (“the greedy one”), Heino Hallhuber (“the bride”), Irene Steinbeiser (“the groom”).
Berlin, November 1923. Abel Rosenberg arrives at a pension in the evening and discovers that his brother, Max, has shot himself. Abel, Max, and Max's wife, Manuela, have been performing as a trapeze trio in the circus.
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