Sawdust and Tinsel Film Still

Sawdust and Tinsel

Ingmar Bergman

 
Sawdust and Tinsel Criterion DVD

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  • Sweden
  • 1953
  • 92 minutes
  • Black and White
  • 1.33:1
  • Swedish
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  • Spine #412

SYNOPSIS: Ingmar Bergman presents the battle of the sexes as a ramshackle, grotesque carnival in Sawdust and Tinsel, one of the late master’s most vivid early works. The story of the charged relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner (Ake Grönberg) and his performer girlfriend (Harriet Andersson), the film features dreamlike detours and twisted psychosexual power plays that presage the director’s Smiles of a Summer Night and The Seventh Seal, works that would soon change the landscape of art cinema forever.

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Cast

Albert Johansson Ake Grönberg
AnneHarriet Andersson
FransHasse Ekman
Teodor Frost Anders Ek
Alma, his wifeGudrun Brost
Agda, Albert's wife Annika Tretow
JensErik Strandmark
Mr. Sjuberg Gunnar Bjornstrand

Credits

DirectorIngmar Bergman
ScreenplayIngmar Bergman
CinematographySven Nykvist and Hilding Bladh
MusicKarl-Birger Blomdahl
Set designerBibi Lindström
CostumesMago
SoundOlle Jakobsson
EditingCarl-Olov Skeppstedt
Production managerLars-Owe Carlberg
Executive producerRune Waldekranz

Disc Features

  • New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the film, featuring five minutes of material not included in previous U.S. editions
  • Audio commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
  • Video introduction by Bergman from 2003
  • New and improved English subtitle translation
  • PLUS: A new essay by critic John Simon and an appreciation by filmmaker Catherine Breillat

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Film Essays

Sawdust and Tinsel: Awakening

By Catherine BreillatNovember 19, 2007

In 2003, on the occasion of the Cinémathèque française’s complete retrospective of Ingmar Bergman’s work, ten filmmakers were invited to present one of his films Read more »

Sawdust and Tinsel: The Lower Depths

By John SimonNovember 19, 2007

Ingmar Bergman made some outstanding films before Sawdust and Tinsel (1953). But that film, released in America under the meretricious title The Naked Night—and Read more »


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Scenes from a Director’s Life

December 23, 2009

He created some of film’s most dramatic moments, and his own experiences are about to become the stuff of drama. A series based on the life and career of Ingmar Read more »