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Rating: 7.5 stars

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Criterion sweden imdb 250 professor

All movies seen on 11/13/2013

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Wild Strawberries (1957)

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Drama

Most recently watched by floydrmd

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 | Göran Lundquist | Helge Wulff | Peder Hellman | Vendela Rudbäck | Ulf Johanson | Erik Nordgren | Josef Norman | Gunnar Olsson | Harry Asklund

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another blindspot knocked down. This is like A Christmas Carol with the professor having these visions of his past as he copes with his current life as a bitter old man. Wasn’t bowled over by this but can see why it’s highly regarded. I prefer the other Bergman films I’ve seen over this one, however.

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