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SHAME
(1968)
Ingmar Bergman's simple, masterly vision of normal war and what it does to survivors. Set a tiny step into the future, the film has the inevitability of a common dream.
Liv Ullmann is superb in the demanding central role--one that calls for emotional involvements with her husband (Max von Sydow) and her lover (Gunnar Bj�rnstrand). One of Bergman's greatest films, this is one of the least known. (Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies)
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| Original title: |
Skammen ["The shame"] |
| Other title: |
The Shame (UK) |
| Production: |
Svensk Filmindustri / Cinematograph AB |
| Distribution: |
Svensk Filmindustri |
| Premiere: |
29 September 1968 (Spegeln, Stockholm) |
| Running time: |
103 minutes |
| Language: |
Swedish |
| Filmed: |
on location on the island of F�r�; from 12 September to 23 November 1967. |
| CAST |
| Eva Rosenberg: |
Liv Ullmann |
| Jan Rosenberg: |
Max von Sydow |
| Colonel Jacobi: |
Gunnar Bj�rnstrand |
| Mrs. Jacobi: |
Birgitta Valberg |
| Filip: |
Sigge F�rst |
| Lobelius: |
Hans Alfredson |
| Elderly officer: |
Willy Peters |
| Soldier: |
Per Berglund |
| Interviewer: |
Vilgot Sj�man |
| Oswald: |
Ingvar Kjellson |
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| CREDITS |
| Producer: |
Lars-Owe Carlberg |
| Director: |
Ingmar Bergman |
| Screenplay: |
Ingmar Bergman |
| Cinematography: |
Sven Nykvist |
| Art Direction: |
P.A. Lundgren |
| Editor: |
Ulla Ryghe |
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| REVIEWS |
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"Bergman's magisterial confrontation with war, set in a characteristically ambivalent decor, either a peaceful farm somewhere in Sweden or a landscape from Goya secreting intimations of disaster. Here live a man and wife, indifferent to the war until it arrives on their doorstep to strip their lives to the bone. Presenting war with shattering power as a blindly destructive force, Bergman uses it brilliantly as a background to the real pain: the way the couple are forced to look at each other, and to realise that the only honest feeling they have about their relationship is shame. It ends with one of the cinema's most awesomely apocalyptic visions: not the cheeriest of films, but a masterpiece."
� Tom Milne, Time Out
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