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Ingmar Bergman Trilogy: Criterion Collection (Through a Glass Darkly (1961) / Winter Light (1962) / The Silence (1963)
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgård Director: Rating: Not Rated
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Through a Glass Darkly(1961)
On an island, Karin, a recently released mentally sick young woman, is spending her vacation with her husband Martin, a doctor, her father David, a writer just back from Switzerland, and her younger brother Fredrick (Minus). Karin is suffering from hallucinations and hysteria. She thinks she is visited by God.
Winter Light (1962)
On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith. After the service, he attempts to console a fisherman (Jonas Persson) who is tormented by anxiety, but Tomas can only speak about his own troubled relationship with God. A school teacher (Maerta Lundberg) offers Tomas her love as consolation for his loss of faith. But Tomas resists her love as desperately as she offers it to him. This is the second in Bergman's trilogy of films dealing with man's relationship with God.
The Silence (1963)
"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ill -- would like to make a human connection also but cannot leave the hotel room. Traveling with the sisters is a small boy who escapes into the hotel, meets a troupe of dwarfs. Which sister is this little boy's mother? |
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Starring:
Harriet Andersson | Lars Passgård | Gunnar Björnstrand | Max Von Sydow | Allan Edwall | Kolbjörn Knudsen | Olof Thunberg | Elsa Ebbesen | ...more
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Genre:
Drama, Foreign/Art House
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
Not Rated
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
4
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Subtitles:
English
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Screen Ratio:
Full Screen Edition - 1.33:1
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English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Swedish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) | |
Running Time:
266 minutes
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Catalogue Number:
DVDBER130
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UPC/Barcode Number:
037429181522
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- Ingmar Bergman Makes A Movie, an Extraordinary Feature-Length, Five-Part Documentary Produced for Swedish Television, Which Follows the Production and Editing of Winter Light Through to its 1962 Premiere in Stockholm and includes Interviews with Bergman, Cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Actor Gunnar Bjornstrand and Others.
- Exploring the Film: New Video Discussions With Bergman Biographer Peter Cowie (Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography) Focusing on the Trilogy and the Director's Inspiration, Actors, Cinematic Style, and Religious Confrontations.
- Essays by Film Scholars Peter Matthews, Peter Cowie and Leo Braudy, and Filmmaker Vilgot Sjoman
- Poster Gallery for the Films of the Trilogy
- Original U.S. Theatrical Trailers
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