Examining enduring love and the struggle for power and reconciliation at the heart of all families, in Saraband, Bergman reunites two characters last seen divorcing in his 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage. A retired academic living off a small inheritance, Johan finds his country idyll torn apart by the reappearance of Marianne, his ex-wife, thirty-two years after their last meeting. Bergman's ability to push situations beyond civility into explosions of love or hate is unsurpassed. Powerful and vigorous, and featuring peerless performances, this is yet another masterpiece by the great auteur.
Saraband
Saraband
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- Direction: Ingmar Bergman
- Script: Ingmar Bergman
- Cinematography: Per Sundin
- Editing: Sylvia Ingemarsson
- Sound: Börje Johansson
- Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
- Production: SVT/Fiktion
- Producers: Pia Ehrnvall
- Art Direction: Göran Wassberg
- Costumes: Inger Elvira Pehrson
- Format: 35mm
- Color: Colour
- Production Country: Sweden
- Production Year: 2003
- Duration: 120'
Ingmar Bergman
One of the world's most respected film and theatre directors, he was born in 1918 and began his career in the forties as a screenwriter. Since then, he has directed more than forty feature or television productions and has one countless distinctions and awards, including three Academy Awards. In 1997, the 50th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, he was awarded the prestigious Palme of Palmes for his contribution to film.
Filmography
English titles
1955 Smiles of a Summer Night
1957 The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries
1960 The Virgin Spring
1963 The Silence
1972 Cries and Whispers
1973 Scenes from a Marriage
1977 The Serpent's Egg
1978 Autumn Sonata
1982 Fanny and Alexander
2003 Saraband (TV film)
