Publication
Imprint: Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, c2002. Context: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1957. Series: Criterion collection, 139. Responsibility: a Janus Films presentation ; Svensk Filmindustri ; en film av Ingmar Bergman ; director/screenplay, Ingmar Bergman ; producer, Allan Ekelund. Credits: Photographer, Gunnar Fischer ; music, Erik Nordgren. Performer(s): Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow; Ingrid Thulin; Gunnar Björnstrand. OCLC Number: 48982862. Language: In Swedish with optional English subtitles. Physical: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. Features: Special features: commentary by Peter Cowie; Ingmar Bergman on life and work (a 90 minute documentary from Swedish television); stills gallery; improved English subtitles. DVD; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
ISBN
0780024656 / 9780780024656
Original publication date
1957-12-26
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CSS Library Notes
Description: The film that catapulted Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director's richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjöström), is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
FY2012 / jvsn
FY2012 / jvsn
Physical description
4.75 inches
Description
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.
Original language
Swedish
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LibraryThing member normaleistiko
Seeing this wonderful film again after so many years was such a treat. I felt the human tragedy, comedy and problems Bergman dipected in 1957 are the same as 2007, 50 years later. What a beautiful black and white film. I did not miss color at all, in fact, there is more to see. In Swedish with
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LibraryThing member comfypants
An old man on a road trip faces his mortality.
Slow and boring. Great music. I always complain about the Nihilist outlook of this sort of mid-century European art film. But in this case, the ending is up beat, and it just confuses me. I do not know what to make of a happy Ingmar Bergman character.
Slow and boring. Great music. I always complain about the Nihilist outlook of this sort of mid-century European art film. But in this case, the ending is up beat, and it just confuses me. I do not know what to make of a happy Ingmar Bergman character.