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Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman

 
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  • Sweden
  • 1972
  • 91 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.66:1
  • Swedish

SYNOPSIS: Legendary director Ingmar Bergman creates a testament to the strength of the soul—and a film of absolute power. Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the pettiness of her sisters’ concerns to remember moments of being—moments that Bergman, with the help of Academy Award–winning cinematographer Sven Nykvist, translates into pictures of staggering beauty and unfathomable horror.

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Cast

AgnesHarriet Andersson
AnnaKari Sylwan
KarinIngrid Thulin
MariaLiv Ullmann
Pastor IsakAnders Ek
Aunt OlgaInga Gill
DavidErland Josephson
JoakimHenning Moritzen
FrederikGeorg Årlin

Credits

DirectorIngmar Bergman
ScreenplayIngmar Bergman
ProducerLars-Owe Carlberg
CinematographySven Nykvist
EditingSiv Lundgren
MusicFrédéric Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed byKäbi Laretei and Pierre Fournier

Disc Features

  • Lush new digital transfer, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
  • Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love with Erland Josephson (2000), a candid and revealing 52-minute interview with Bergman and long-time collaborator Erland Josephson, originally broadcast on Swedish television
  • Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
  • Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

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Film Essays

Cries and Whispers

By Peter CowieJune 18, 2001

In his book Images, Ingmar Bergman has written: “All my films can be thought of in terms of black and white, except for Cries and Whispers. In the screenplay, it says that Read more »