After the Rehearsal

  • December 16, 2018 / 15:00
  • December 29, 2018 / 15:00

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin, Bertil Guve
Sweden, 1984, 72', color

Swedish with Turkish subtitles

With this spare chamber piece, set in an empty theater, Ingmar Bergman returned to his perennial theme of the permeability of life and art. Lingering after a rehearsal for August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, eminent director Henrik enters into a frank and flirtatious conversation with his up-and-coming star, Anna leading him to recall his affair with Anna’s late mother, the self-destructive actress Rakel. The sharply written and impeccably performed After the Rehearsal, pares away all artifice to examine both the allure and the cost of a life in the theater.

Crisis

Crisis

The Magician

The Magician

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute

After the Rehearsal

After the Rehearsal

Saraband

Saraband

Bergman’s Shorts

Bergman’s Shorts

Trailer

After the Rehearsal

Turquerie

Turquerie

Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts. 

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier.