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Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden

1957

91 minutes

Black and White

1.33:1

Swedish

139

Synopsis

The film that catapulted Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director’s richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjöström), is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.

Cast

Isak BorgVictor Sjostrom
SaraBibi Andersson
MarianneIngrid Thulin
EvaldGunnar Bjornstrand
AgdaJullan Kindahl
AndersFolke Sundquist
ViktorBjörn Bjelvenstam
Isak's motherNaima Wifstrand

Credits

DirectorIngmar Bergman
ScreenplayIngmar Bergman
CinematographyGunnar Fischer
SetsGittan Gustafsson
MusicErik Nordgren
EditingOscar Rosander
SoundAaby Wedin and Lennart Wallén
CostumesMillie Ström
Production supervisorAllan Ekelund

Disc Features

  • New digital transfer
  • Commentary by film scholar Peter Cowie
  • Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work, a 90-minute documentary by filmmaker and author Jörn Donner
  • Stills gallery, featuring rare behind-the-scenes photos
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

From the Current

He Is an Island

by Michael Koresky Jul 16, 2008

The locations for many of Ingmar Bergman’s most dramatically spare films have existed for so long in moviegoers’ minds as stark black-and-white dream states that to walk through them in living, vibrant...

Wild Strawberries

by Peter Cowie Feb 11, 2002

The opening nightmare in Wild Strawberries comes as a shocking reminder of death to Isak, the film’s central character. He finds himself in the Old...

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