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Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) (1957)

8.5 Listal rating
8.3 IMDB rating

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Explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund to receive an honorary award after 50 years of medical practice, he finds himself repeatedly affected by intrusive dreams and hallucinations that expose his darkest fears. He slowly come ... (more)


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Starring (View all) :
Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström

Dr. Isak Borg
Ingrid Thulin

Ingrid Thulin

Marianne Borg
Gunnar Björnstrand

Gunnar Björnstrand

Dr. Evald Borg
Naima Wifstrand

Naima Wifstrand

Mrs. Borg, Isak's Mother
Gunnel Broström

Gunnel Broström

Mrs. Alman
Gertrud Fridh

Gertrud Fridh

Karin Borg, Isak's wife


Written by (View all) :
Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

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Wild Child....The Last Straw

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 14 18:21
''The punishment is loneliness.'' After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. Victor Sjöström: Dr. Isak Borg Ingmar Bergman has done it yet again. First Seventh Seal blew me away with it's masterful strokes of genius and now, Smultronstället AKA Wild Strawberries. The genius is replicated in it's questions and answers it gives us the viewers on a very important aspect to me, Mortality... Thus also the purpose of our life. Wild Strawberries addresses the choices of a Professor who has succeeded academically but with love and company it begins to blur and sadly vacant. Dreams are used to great effect to give us some rather surreal imaginative insight into Borg's subconscious and the looming grip of D...Read more

Rating : 9/10

An Ingmar Bergman masterpiece...

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 2 0:29
"If I have been feeling worried or sad during the day, I have a habit of recalling scenes from childhood to calm me. So it was this evening." Wild Strawberries (also known by its foreign title Smultronstället) is a surreal, expressionistic creation from renowned Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. During 1957, Bergman directed two of his most celebrated masterpieces: The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries. Both of these exquisite films sincerely delve into themes of life and death. Where The Seventh Seal dealt with the futility of absconding death, Wild Strawberries is a hauntingly beautiful and entrancing meditation on our morality, relationships, faith, and the realisation of death's inevitability. The film is a classic introspective production and a triumph in world cinema. In a sense ...Read more