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©2002
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #139
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Original title: Smultronstället
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity. In Swedish with English subtitles
DVD release of the 1957 motion picture by Svensk Filmindustri; renewed in 1959 by AB Svensk Filmindustri
Special features: commentary by Peter Cowie; Ingmar Bergman on life and work (a 90 minute documentary from Swedish television); stills gallery; improved English subtitles
Director/screenplay, Ingmar Bergman ; producer, Allan Ekelund ; photographer, Gunnar Fischer ; music, Erik Nordgren
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow
Not rated
DVD
In Swedish with English subtitles