A judge questions three actors about their new production, which is considered obscene. Their relations are complex: Sebastian is an unstable drunkard, in debt and guilty of killing his former business partner. He is involved with Thea. She is tense and fragile, prone to outbursts of rage, and is married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. In a stark and purified form, Bergman returns to questions and images he always circled around: The exaltation and humiliation of the artist, the rebellion against the father, the images of God. A society which is at once the artist's audience and enemy.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 12 min.
- Country, year
- Sweden, 1969
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Swedish
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Screenplay
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producers
- Lars-Owe Carlberg
- Cinematography
- Sven Nykvist
- Music
- Olle Jacobsson, Nils Skeppstedt, Erndt Frithiof, Lennart Engholm
- Cast
- Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erik Hell
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Director
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden. He studied at Stockholm University, while his professional career started in the Municipal Theater in Helsinborg. Throughout six decades of his cinematic work he created more than 50 films. The importance of Ingmar Bergman to the development of film cannot be overestimated. He is one of the great artistic explorers of the possibilities of the silver screen.
