Wild Strawberries

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After exploring his disillusionment with religion in his previous films, Ingmar Bergman adopted a humanistic approach for this classic study in isolationism. Legendary Scandinavian director Victor Sjöström stars as Isak Borg, an aging medical professor who reassesses his life while journeying to his former university to receive an honorary degree. Borg travels with his estranged daughter-in-law Marianne Ingrid Thulin and revisits many of the landmarks of his past, conjuring up memories of his family and of his ...
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Overview

After exploring his disillusionment with religion in his previous films, Ingmar Bergman adopted a humanistic approach for this classic study in isolationism. Legendary Scandinavian director Victor Sjöström stars as Isak Borg, an aging medical professor who reassesses his life while journeying to his former university to receive an honorary degree. Borg travels with his estranged daughter-in-law Marianne Ingrid Thulin and revisits many of the landmarks of his past, conjuring up memories of his family and of his onetime sweetheart Sara Bibi Andersson. Returning to the present, he meets a teenage girl who resembles the long-departed Sara. She hitches a ride with the professor and Marianne, as do a ceaselessly bickering married couple. These new characters eventually become intertwined with Borg's hazy flashbacks and fantasies, as the old man recalls the disappointments and disillusionments that have left him cold and guilt-ridden, attributes emphasized when he encounters his equally cold and resentful son. Bookending Borg's odyssey of self-discovery are a series of symbolic images at the beginning of the film a clock without hands, a man without a face and a hauntingly beautiful finale, in which professor is beckoned back to the "perfect" world he left behind so many years earlier. This classic art movie remains one of Bergman's most accessible films and one of the most influential European art movies of its generation. Its intense focus on one man's thoughts, regrets, and memories set the tone for innumerable psychological character studies in its wake.
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Special Features

Audio Commentary featuring film scholar Peter Cowie; Introduction by Director Ingmar Bergman; Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work, a ninety-minute documentary by filmmaker and author Jörn Donner; Behind-the-scenes footage shot by Bergman; ; Plus: A booklet featuring an essay by film writer Mark Le Fanu
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Editorial Reviews

All Movie Guide - Richard Gilliam
Smultronstället/Wild Strawberries is one of the masterpieces of world cinema, a key early representative of the European art films that would change how people thought about movies in the late 1950s and 1960s. While the film posits a frightening questioning of life, it ultimately offers hope and redemption to its aging protagonist, and ultimately to us all. Director Ingmar Bergman effectively alternates emotional warmth with coldness to create one of the screen's greatest philosophical character studies. His shot composition is remarkable, particularly his close-ups of legendary Swedish director Victor Sjöström, here playing the elderly professor. The film is full of masterful symbolic imagery and allegorical storytelling. Most important, Bergman makes his film accessible to the ordinary viewer. This is a warm and human film, strongly filled with a richness rarely experienced on screen.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 6/11/2013
  • UPC: 715515106818
  • Original Release: 1957
  • Source: Criterion
  • Region Code: A
  • Presentation: B&W
  • Language: Swedish
  • Time: 1:32:00
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Sales rank: 5

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Victor Sjöström Professor Isak Borg
Bibi Andersson Sara
Ingrid Thulin Marianne Borg
Gunnar Björnstrand Evald Borg
Folke Sundquist Anders
Naima Wifstrand Isak's Mother
Björn Bjelvenstam Viktor
Gunnel Broström Mrs. Berit Almann
Åke Fridell Gertud's Lover
Gertrud Fridh Isak's Wife
Maud Hansson Angelica
Julian Kindahl Agda, the housekeeper
Gunnel Lindblom Charlotta
Goran Lundstrom Benjamin
Yngve Nordwall Uncle Aron
Gio Petre Sigbritt
Sif Ruud Aunt
Gunnar Sjöberg Alman
Per Sjöstrand Sigfrid
Max von Sydow Åkerman
Technical Credits
Ingmar Bergman Director, Screenwriter
E. Eckert-Lundin Musical Direction/Supervision
Allan Ekelund Producer
Gunnar Fischer Cinematographer
Erik Nordgren Score Composer
Oscar Rosander Editor
Millie Strom Costumes/Costume Designer
Aaby Wedin Sound/Sound Designer
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