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WILD STRAWBERRIES

by Ingmar Bergman

synopsis

With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they ...

international title: Wild Strawberries
original title: Smultronstället
country: Sweden
year: 1957
genre: fiction
directed by: Ingmar Bergman
film run: 91'
release date: SE 26/12/1957, DE 30/06/1958, UK 24/08/1958, IT 29/08/1958, NO 30/09/1958, DK 06/10/1958, FI 20/03/1959, FR 17/04/1959, BE 11/12/1959, PT 23/11/1960, ES 07/02/1963, ZS 20/12/1963, HU 19/03/1964, DD 08/07/1966, TR 10/02/1985, GR 20/06/2003, CZ 01/06/2005, PL 13/10/2006
screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
cast: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
cinematography by: Gunnar Fischer
film editing: Oscar Rosander
art director: Gittan Gustafsson
costumes designer: Millie Ström

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