Saraband

  • December 16, 2018 / 17:00
  • December 28, 2018 / 19:00

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius
Sweden, 2003, 111', color

Swedish with Turkish subtitles

With his final film, Ingmar Bergman returned to two of his most richly drawn characters: Johan and Marianne, the couple from Scenes from a Marriage. Dropping in on Johan’s secluded country house after decades of separation, Marianne reconnects with the man she once loved. Nearby, the widowed musician Henrik, Johan’s son from an earlier marriage, clutches desperately to his only child, the teenage Karin. A chamber piece performed by four wounded characters and suffused with disappointment and forgiveness, Saraband is a generous farewell to cinema from one of its greatest artists.

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Trailer

Saraband

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