Private Confessions

Private Confessions
Film poster
Directed by Liv Ullmann
Produced by Ingrid Dahlberg
Written by Ingmar Bergman
Starring Pernilla August
Max von Sydow
Samuel Fröler
Cinematography Sven Nykvist
Edited by Michal Leszczylowski
Release date
  • 25 December 1996 (1996-12-25)
Running time
 200 minutes
Country Sweden
Language Swedish

Private Confessions (Swedish: Enskilda samtal) is a 1996 Swedish drama film directed by Liv Ullmann and written by Ingmar Bergman. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Private Confessions: were also a short TV series in two parts, premiered at Sveriges Television 1996.

Private Confessions can be seen as the last part of a loosely united trilogy - with the SVT series The Best Intentions (1992) directed by Bille August and Daniel Bergman's directed film Söndagsbarn (1992) as the previous work - based on Ingmar Bergman's stories about his parents complicated relationship life in his marriage and also some of his own childhood memories, (all in a somewhat rewritten form). It was the first of the two works that Liv Ullmann was asked to direct on Ingmar Bergman's manuscript; followed by the film Trolösa (2000). The series is divided into two parts of long film length, a total of 195 minutes, and is produced by Sveriges Television in cooperation with the other Nordic national public service broadcasters. For his role interpretation, the main role holder Pernilla August was awarded a number of international film prizes. For the photo Bergman's long-standing employee Sven Nykvist was.

As an independent continuation of the longer series The good will here again meets the main couple Anna (Pernilla August) and the clergyman Henrik (Samuel Fröler) a few years later in the 20th century and their marriage. The men have begun to slide away from each other everyday and Anna has encountered contact with the young student Tomas Egerman (Thomas Hanzon) and a secret tremendous love has arisen between them. Anna is consumed by contradictory feelings and guilty of the deceit against her husband and takes in her wildness contact with her old confirmation clergyman Jacob (Max von Sydow) after many years. Through the series, you must, above all, follow Anna in various profound, existential conversations with the people around her; in addition to Jacob, Henrik and Tomas, her mother Karin Åkerblom (Anita Björk) and her friend Märta (Gunnel Fred). The question is which way she will be able to choose to continue her life.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Private Confessions". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
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