| Brief Description: | One of the great films by Bergman, with Victor Sjostrom as the aged Stockholm professor who recollects his past experiences and becomes aware, for the first time, of his failings and shortcomings. With Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Bjornstrand. "Few movies give us such memorable, emotion-charged images" (Pauline Kael). A Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival and winner of the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival. In Swedish with English subtitles.
Criterion Collection edition. Includes commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie, photo stills gallery, new and improved subtitle translation, and the feature-length documentary, Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work (Jorn Donner, Finland, 1975, 90 mins.).
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
1957
91 mins. |