Private Confessions
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Directed by | Liv Ullmann |
Written by | Ingmar Bergman |
Produced by | Ingrid Dahlberg |
Starring | Pernilla August Max von Sydow Samuel Fröler |
Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
Edited by | Michal Leszczylowski |
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Running time | 200 minutes |
Country | Sweden |
Language | Swedish |
Private Confessions (
Private Confessions is also a short TV series in two parts, premiering on Sveriges Television in 1996.
Private Confessions can be seen as the last part of a loosely united trilogy - with the
As an independent continuation of the longer series, the story beings with the main couple, the clergyman Henrik (Samuel Fröler) and his wife Anna (Pernilla August), a few years later in the 20th century. The two have begun to grow apart from one another. Anna meets a young student, Tomas Egerman (Thomas Hanzon), and a secret love is born between them. Many years later, Anna, consumed by contradictory feelings and guilty of the deceit against her husband, confides in her old confirmation clergyman, Jacob (Max von Sydow). Through the series, Anna has various profound, existential conversations with the people around her: Jacob, Henrik, Tomas, her mother Karin Åkerblom (Anita Björk) and her friend Märta (Gunnel Fred).
Cast
- Pernilla August as Anna
- Max von Sydow as Jacob
- Samuel Fröler as Henrik
- Anita Björk as Karin Åkerblom
- Vibeke Falk as Ms. Nylander, housekeeper
- Thomas Hanzon as Tomas Egerman
- Kristina Adolphson as Maria
- Gunnel Fred as Märta Gärdsjö
- Hans Alfredson as Bishop Agrell
- Bengt Schött as Stille, verger
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Private Confessions". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
External links
- Private Confessions at IMDb
- Private Confessions PDF