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Release Date: 2003 Cast: Erland Josephson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnel Fred, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Categories: Movies, Music, Musical, Family Drama, World cinema, Television movie Saraband is a 2003 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, and his final film. It was made for Swedish television, but released theatrically in shorter versions outside Sweden. Its United States theatrical release, with English subtitles, was in July 2005. The Swedish television version is just under 4 hours, while theatrical releases run either 2 hours or 107 minutes.
The story is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back the characters of Johan and Marianne. It is a co-production of Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, and Austria.
It opens with the... MORE
Saraband is a 2003 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, and his final film. It was made for Swedish television, but released theatrically in shorter versions outside Sweden. Its United States theatrical release, with English subtitles, was in July 2005. The Swedish television version is just under 4 hours, while theatrical releases run either 2 hours or 107 minutes.
The story is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back the characters of Johan and Marianne. It is a co-production of Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, and Austria.
It opens with the camera on Marianne standing by a table covered with photographs. It is a well-lit room, and she addresses the viewer. She picks one picture up after another; they are in no particular order, being just heaped all over the table. Some make her smile, or elicit a comment or a sigh. But then she picks up a photograph of her husband, prompting her to reminisce about how they had been more or less happy, and how they'd broken up. She goes on to recall how his second marriage failed, while she was already married to a second husband herself, and then when her second husband died (by flying a plane off LESS
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