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.
| Agnes | Harriet Andersson |
| Anna | Kari Sylwan |
| Karin | Ingrid Thulin |
| Maria | Liv Ullmann |
| Pastor Isak | Anders Ek |
| Aunt Olga | Inga Gill |
| David | Erland Josephson |
| Joakim | Henning Moritzen |
| Frederik | Georg Årlin |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman |
| Producer | Lars-Owe Carlberg |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Editing | Siv Lundgren |
| Music | Frédéric Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Performed by | Käbi Laretei and Pierre Fournier |
By June 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 red represents for me the interior Read more »
October 26, 2011
Piercing chamber drama though it may be, Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers would seem an unlikely candidate for the theater, so quiet, vivid, and intimate is its story of a dying woman and the sisters who fail to offer her comfort.
November 25, 2009
Liv Ullmann is the belle of the ball this holiday season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Not only is the Swedish acting powerhouse’s staging of A Streetcar Named Desire (which was first mounted earlier Read more »
By December 15, 2008
Flash back to September 1968. The Swedish Film Week in Sorrento, Italy, with its alfresco suppers and its excursions to Capri and Pompeii. Ingmar Bergman was expected, and he and Liv Ullmann were assigned Read more »
October 09, 2009
More than two years after Ingmar Bergman’s death, his muse Liv Ullmann is still bursting with stories about the Swedish director. In a poignant and insightful profile by Diane Solway in this month’s Read more »
