DVD
Cries & whispers = Viskningar och rop
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN FILMS (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
Swedish with optional English subtitles and optional English-dubbed soundtrack.
Performers
Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan.
Publication Information
[U.S.] : Criterion Collection/Janus Films, c2001.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Summary
A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1972 by Cinematograph AB.
Special feature: Reflections on life, death and love, an interview with Ingmar Bergman by Erland Josephson.