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A disturbing study of the doubts, uneasiness and creeping paranoia of contemporary life. Swedish dialogue.

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EAN5023965334626

eBay Product ID (ePID)3947861

Product Key Features

ActorMax von Sydow, Gunnar Bjrnstrand, Harriet Andersson

Film/TV TitleThrough a Glass Darkly

DirectorIngmar Bergman

LanguageSwedish

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time85 Mins

FormatDVD

Release Year2001

FeaturesBlack & White, With Subtitles, Star And Director Filmographies\Scene Selection\Philip Strick Film Notes\Extract From Bergmans Book Images My Life In Film\The Bergman Collection Trailer

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Country/Region of ManufactureSweden

ReviewsUSA Today - ...Harriet Andersson's performance is among the greatest in the director's canon...

Additional InformationTHROUGH A GLASS DARKLY won Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for the second year in a row. (It was preceded by THE VIRGIN SPRING, which won in 1960.) The picture represents Bergman's first experiment with what he referred to as the chamber play, featuring only four characters whose configuration resembles that of a string quartet. Karin (Harriet Andersson), a young woman recently released from a mental institution, is on holiday on a secluded island with her father, David (Gunnar Bjornstrand), a writer; her husband, Martin (Max von Sydow); and her younger brother, Minus (Lars Passgard). The presence of her family, who are caught up in their own problems and unable to offer her the love and emotional support she requires, proves detrimental to Karin's mental condition instead of bringing about her recovery. Soon she is undergoing an emotional crisis, culminating in the memorable hallucinogenic episode in which she envisions God as a spider.<BR>This was the first film of Bergman's trilogy of faith--which also includes WINTER LIGHT and THE SILENCE--though this is a concept discredited later on by Bergman himself, who ultimately saw few thematic links among the three movies.

ScreenwriterIngmar Bergman

FeaturedLars Passgσrd

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Movie/TV TitleThrough A Glass Darkly