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Wild Strawberries (1957)

Original Title: Smultronstället
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Runtime: 91 minutes
Year: 1957
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish / Latin
Subtitle: English
Colour: Black and White.
Speciality: Intense psychological drama analysing the effect of guilt, religion and death on a person. Along with 'Seventh Seal' established Bergman as a grand master of quality cinema
Palador DVD Code: PFE0019b1
Available As: Part of ‘World Cinema Box Set ’

Synopsis

Shaken by a foreboding dream, an elderly professor decides to drive rather than fly to southern Sweden. Accompanied by his daughter-in-law, his voyage becomes a journey in and out of the past as the boundary between reality and dream blurs …

Credits

Directed by - Ingmar Bergman
Writing credits - Ingmar Bergman
CAST (in credits order)
Character	Actor's name
Dr. Isak Borg	Victor Sjöström
Sara	Bibi Andersson
Marianne Borg	Ingrid Thulin
Dr. Evald Borg	Gunnar Björnstrand
Agda	Jullan Kindahl
Anders	Folke Sundquist
Viktor	Björn Bjelfvenstam
Mrs. Borg, Isak's Mother	Naima Wifstrand
Mrs. Alman	Gunnel Broström
Karin Borg, Isak's wife	Gertrud Fridh
Aunt Olga	Sif Ruud
Sten Alman / The Examiner	Gunnar Sjöberg
Henrik Åkerman	Max von Sydow
Karin's lover	Åke Fridell
Uncle Aron	Yngve Nordwall

Comments

Victor Sjostrom's magnificent performance carries an emotional authority that gives Bergman's great movie a warmth and an accessibility that it might not otherwise have had. Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK]
Presumably, the audience is stunned that it can understand the filmic metaphors... and thus, they must be genius Christopher Null Filmcritic.com

Trivia

Ingmar Bergman wrote the script while he was in hospital.

Final screen appearance of Victor Sjöström.

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