As two sisters care for their dying sister their past lives are relived. Swedish dialogue with subtitles.
Product Identifiers
EAN5023965337023
eBay Product ID (ePID)3950649
Product Key Features
ActorHenning Moritzen, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson, Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan
Film/TV TitleCries and Whispers
DirectorIngmar Bergman
LanguageSwedish
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time88 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.66 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2002
FeaturesWidescreen, 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
Additional InformationIngmar Bergman's acclaimed drama, which deals with the fractured relationships between three sisters, is set in a vast turn-of-the-century manor house where unidentified voices are continually whispering and mingle with a dying woman's cries of pain. Karin and Maria (played by Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann, respectively) have come to stay with their sister Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is suffering from cancer, during the final stretch of her illness. Attending to Agnes is her faithful maid Anna (Kari Sylwan), who, in spite of her apparent social inferiority, is the only one who remains steadfast and dauntless until the very end--the two other women, plagued by guilt, loneliness, and jealousy of one another, are unable to offer assistance or even sympathy in their sister's hour of need. Lauded often for its innovative stylistic elements (such as flashbacks introduced by a fade to red--a color that dominates the picture as a whole--and extreme, expressive close-ups of the actresses' faces), CRIES AND WHISPERS features sumptuous period costume design and stunning photography by longtime Bergman cinematographer Sven Nykvist.