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Rating: 8.5 stars

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Wild Strawberries (1957)

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Drama

Most recently watched by floydrmd, sleestakk

Overview

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor’s own first love.

Length 91 minutes

Actors

Victor Sjöström | Bibi Andersson | Ingrid Thulin | Gunnar Björnstrand | Jullan Kindahl | Folke Sundquist | Björn Bjelfvenstam | Naima Wifstrand | Gunnel Broström | Gertrud Fridh | Sif Ruud | Gunnar Sjöberg | Max von Sydow | Åke Fridell | Yngve Nordwall | Per Sjöstrand | Gio Petré | Gunnel Lindblom | Maud Hansson | Ann-Marie Wiman | Eva Norée | Lena Bergman | Monica Ehrling | Per Skogsberg | Helge Wulff | Göran Lundquist | Peder Hellman | Vendela Rudbäck | Ulf Johanson | Erik Nordgren | Josef Norman | Gunnar Olsson | Harry Asklund

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another Bergman film I saw in my youth, but never revisited until now. An old man looking back on his life probably hits home with me more now in MY old age. :) 

In any case, it’s a great film with beautiful performances from Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, and Ingrid Thulin.  The nightmare sequence at the beginning is classic.

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