Saraband / manus och regi, Ingmar Bergman.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007, director.

Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships.

Divorced people.

Musicians.

Families.

Genre:

Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Sony Pictures Classics, [2003]

Language Note:

In Swedish.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

In Saraband, Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. Also living at the summer house are Johan's son Henrik and Henrik's daughter Karin. Henrik is giving his daughter cello lessons and already sees her future as staked out. Relations between father and son are very strained, but both are protective of Karin. They are all still mourning Anna, Henrik's much-loved wife, who died two years ago, yet who, in many ways, remains present among them. Marianne soon realizes that things are not all as they should be, and she finds herself unwillingly drawn into a complicated and upsetting power struggle. "Saraband can be seen as a concerto grosso, a concert for full orchestra only, here, with four soloists," says Ingmar Bergman. "The drama consists of ten dialogues that follow a particular pattern, and it's an attempt at analysis of a difficult situation." A saraband was an erotic dance for two that was very popular at royal courts in the 17th and 18th centuries. But it was prohibited in Spain as being indecent.

Participant:

Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 08, 2016).

Won 2005 Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards, Special Condor

Won 2006 Sant Jordi Awards, Special Award

Nominated 2006 AARP Movies for Grownups Awards Movies for Grownups Award, Best Actress

Nominated 2005 César Awards, France, Best European Union Film (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne)

OCLC:

971285363