1950
DIVORCED (Frånskild)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director: Gustaf Molander. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman and Herbert Grevenius. Cinematography: Åke Dahlqvist. Music: Erik Nordgren and Bengt Wallerstrom. Art direction: Nils Svenwall. Editing: Oscar Rosander. Premiere: December 26, 1951, at Röda Kvarn. Length: 103 minutes. With Inga Tidblad (Gertrud Holmgren), Alf Kjellin (Dr. Bertil Nordelius), Doris Svedlund (Marianne Berg), Hjördis Petterson (Mrs. Nordelius), Håkan Westergren (P. A. Beckman, manager), Irma Christenson (Dr. Cecilia Lindeman), Holger Löwenadler (Tore Holmgren, engineer), Marianne Löfgren (“The Boss, Mrs. Ingeborg”) Stig Olin (Hans), Elsa Prawitz (Elsie), Birgitta Valberg (Eva Möller, attorney), Sif Ruud (Rut Boman), Carl Ström (Öhman), Ragnar Arvedson (department head), Ingrid Borthen (his wife), Yvonne Lombard (beautiful young wife), Einar Axelsson (businessman), Rune Hal-varson (advertising executive), Rudolf Wendbladh (banker), Guje Lagerwall, Nils Ohlin, and Nils Jacobsson (dinner guests), Hanny Schedin (Mrs. Nilsson), Harriet Andersson (prospective employee), Christian Bratt (tennis player).
1952
SECRETS OF WOMEN/WAITING WOMEN
(Kvinnors väntan)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Cinematographer: Gunnar Fischer. Music: Erik Nordgren. Art direction: Nils Svenwall. Editing: Oscar Rosander. Premiere: November 3, 1952, at Röda Kvarn. Length: 107 minutes. With Anita Björk (Rakel), Maj-Britt Nilsson (Marta), Eva Dahlbeck (Karin), Gunnar Björnstrand (Fredrik Lobelius), Birger Malmsten (Martin Lobelius), Jarl Kulle (Kaj), Karl-Arne Holmsten (Eugen Lobelius), Gerd Andersson (Maj), Björn Bjelfvenstam (Henrik Lobelius), Aino Taube (Annette), Håkan Westergren (Paul Lobelius), Kjell Nordenskiöld (Bob), Carl Ström (anesthesiologist), Märta Arbin (nurse Rut), Torsten Lilliecrona (maitre d' at nightclub), Victor Violacci (patron), Naima Wifstrand (old Mrs. Lobelius), Wiktor Andersson (trash collector), Douglas Håge (concierge), Lil Yunkers (emcee), Lena Brogren (practical nurse).
With Maj-Britt Nilsson in Waiting Women. Behind the camera: Gunnar Fischer.
1952
MONIKA/SUMMER WITH MONIKA (Sommaren med Monika)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman and Per Anders Fogelström, based on Fogelström's novel. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Music: Erik Nordgren, Eskil Eckert-Lundin and Walle Soderlund. Art direction: P. A. Lundgren. Editing: Tage Holmberg, Gösta Lewin. Premiere: February 9, 1953, at Spegeln. Length: 96 minutes. With Harriet Andersson (Monika), Lars Ekborg (Harry), John Harryson (Lelle), Georg Skarstedt (Harry's father), Dagmar Ebbesen (Harry's aunt), Åke Fridell (Monika's father), Naemi Briese (Monika's mother), Åke Grönberg (foreman), Gösta Eriksson (Forsberg, an executive), Gösta Gustafsson (Forsberg's accountant), Sigge Fürst (foreman at porcelain warehouse), Gösta Prüzelius (salesman at Forsberg's), Arthur Fischer (head of vegetable warehouse), Torsten Lilliecrona (driver at vegetable warehouse), Bengt Eklund (foreman at vegetable warehouse), Gustaf Färingborg (assistant at vegetable warehouse), Ivar Wahlgren (homeowner), Renée Björling (his wife), Catrin Westerlund (their daughter), Wiktor Andersson and Birger Sahlberg (beer drinkers), Hanny Schedin (Mrs. Boman in Apartment 12), Anders Andelius and Gordon Löwenadler (Monika's suitors), Nils Hultgren (vicar), Nils Whitén, Tor Borong, and Einar Söderbäck (ragmen), Bengt Brunskog (Sicke), Magnus Kesster and Carl-Axel Elfving (workers), Astrid Bodin&Mona Geijer-Falkner (wives in windows), Ernst Brunman (tobacco store owner).
1953
THE NAKED NIGHT/SAWDUST AND TINSEL
(Gycklarnas afton)
Production: Sandrewproduktion. Distribution: Sandrew-Bauman. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Rune Waldekranz. Cinematography: Hilding Bladh, Sven Nykvist. Music: Karl-Birger Blomdahl. Art direction: Bibi Lindström. Editing: Carl-Olov Skeppstedt. Premiere: September 14, 1953, at Grand. Length: 93 minutes. With Harriet Andersson (Anne), Åke Grönberg (Albert Johansson), Hasse Ekman (Frans), Anders Ek (Frost), Gudrun Brost (Alma), Annika Tretow (Agda), Gunnar Björnstrand (Sjuberg, theater manager), Erik Strandmark (Jens), Kiki (dwarf), Åke Fridell (officer), Majken Torkeli (Mrs. Ekberg), Vanje Hedberg (her son), Curt Löwgren (Blom), Conrad Gyllenhammar (Fager), Mona Sylwan (Mrs. Fager), Hanny Schedin (Aunt Asta), Michael Fant (pretty Anton), Naemi Briese (Mrs. Meijer), Lissi Alandh, Karl-Axel Forssberg, Olav Riégo, John Starck, Erna Groth, and Agda Helin (actors), Julie Bernby (tightrope walker), Göran Lundquist and Mats Hådell (Agda's boys).
The threadbare Circus Alberti is on its way to yet another small town. It is dawn. The owner of the circus, Albert Johansson, sits next to the coachman, together with Jens, one of the clowns. The latter tells the story of how Alma, the wife of the white circus clown Frost, went swimming in the nude one summer day in front of several artillery men.
Albert wants to arrange a parade to draw people to the circus. He and Anne, his circus rider and mistress, go to visit Sjuberg, manager of the city theater, in order to beg him to lend them costumes.
Sjuberg is patronizing but finally agrees to let them borrow the clothes if they will invite the theater's ensemble to the gala performance at the circus. Anne meets Frans, the leading actor at the theater. The parade through town is stopped by city officials. Albert looks up his wife and family, whom he had deserted. He finds that his wife, Agda, has settled down into a financially secure, idyllic situation and suggests they become a family again. But Agda has had enough of circus life and humiliation.
Anne, wildly jealous, goes back to the theater, where Frans takes advantage of her situation. When Albert realizes that he has been betrayed, he gets drunk with the clown Frost. The evening's gala performance ends up with Albert and Frans fighting. After losing the fight, Albert, bruised and bloody, locks himself in his trailer with a revolver. He attempts suicide but fails. Instead the old, sick circus bear absorbs the brunt of his wrath. The circus hits the road again. Anne meets Albert, and the two walk behind the circus trailers, heading for the next stop. The circus rolls onward. On and on forever.
1953
A LESSON IN LOVE (En lektion i kärlek)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Cinematography: Martin Bodin. Music: Dag Wirén. Art direction: P. A. Lundgren. Editing: Oscar Rosander. Premiere: October 4, 1954, at Röda Kvarn. Length: 96 minutes. With Eva Dahlbeck (Marianne Erneman), Gunnar Björnstrand (Dr. David Erneman), Yvonne Lombard (Suzanne), Harriet Andersson (Nix), Åke Grönberg (Carl-Adam), Olof Winnerstrand (Professor Henrik Erneman), Renée Björling (Svea Erneman), Birgitte Reimer (Lise), John Elfstrom (Sam), Dagmar Ebbesen (nurse), Helge Hagerman (traveling salesman), Sigge Fürst (pastor), Gösta Prüzelius (train conductor), Carl Ström (Uncle Axel), Torsten Lilliecrona (porter), Arne Lindblad (hotel manager), Yvonne Brosset (dancer).
1954/55
DREAMS/JOURNEY INTO AUTUMN (Kvinnodröm)
Production: Sandrewproduktion. Distribution: Sandrew-Bauman. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Rune Waldekranz. Cinematography: Hilding Bladh. Music: Stuart Görling. Art direction: Gittan Gustafsson. Editing: Carl-Olov Skeppstedt. Premiere: August 22, 1955, at Grand. Length: 87 minutes. With Eva Dahlbeck (Susanne), Harriet Andersson (Doris), Gunnar Björnstrand (consul), Ulf Palme (Lobelius, chief manager), Inga Landgré (Mrs. Lobelius), Sven Lindberg (Palle), Naima Wifstrand (Mrs. Arén), Benkt-Åke Benktsson (Magnus, an executive), Git Gay (lady in women's boutique), Ludde Gentzel (photographer Sundström), Kerstin Hedeby (Marianne), Jessie Flaws (makeup artist), Marianne Nielsen (Fanny), Bengt Schött (fashion designer in photo studio), Axel Düberg (photographer in Stockholm), Gunhild Kjellqvist (dark-haired girl in boutique), Renée Björling (wife of Professor Berger), Tord Stål (Mr. Barse), Richard Mattsson (Månsson), Inga Gill (saleswoman in bakery), Per-Erik Åström (chauffeur), Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt (porter), Asta Beckman (waitress).
1955
SMILES OF A
SUMMER NIGHT (Sommarnattens leende)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Music: Erik Nordgren. Art direction: P. A. Lundgren. Editing: Oscar Rosander. Premiere: December 26, 1955, at Röda Kvarn. Length: 108 minutes. With Eva Dahlbeck (Desirée Armfeldt), Gunnar Björnstrand (Fredrik Egerman), Ulla Jacobsson (Anne Egerman), Harriet Andersson (Petra), Margit Carlqvist (Charlotte Malcolm), Åke Fridell (coachman Frid), Björn Bjelfvenstam (Henrik Egerman), Naima Wifstrand (old Mrs. Armfeldt), Julian Kindahl (cook), Gull Natorp (Malla), Birgitta Valberg and Bibi Andersson (actresses), Anders Wulff (Fredrik), Jarl Kulle (Count Carl Magnus Malcolm), Gunnar Nielsen (Niklas), Gösta Prüzelius (valet), Svea Holst (wardrobe manager), Hans Strååt (photographer Almgren), Lisa Lundholm (Mrs. Almgren), Lena Söderblom and Mona Malm (lady's maids), Josef Norman (elderly dinner guest), Arne Lindblad (actor), Börje Mellvig (assessor), Ulf Johanson (assistant at legal firm), Yngve Nordwall (Ferdinand), Sten Gester and Mille Schmidt (valets).
In a small town at the turn of the century, an actress, Desirée Armfeldt, is guest-starring in a play at the local theater. A lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, once Desiree's lover, is taking a nap after dinner with his young wife, Anne. In his sleep, he mumbles Desirée's name. During the evening's performance Anne begins to cry; Fredrik takes her home. There he surprises his grown son, Henrik, a theology student, with the maid, Petra.
Fredrik and his young wife have a platonic marriage. After saying good night to her, he returns to the theater and goes to Desirée's dressing room. He seeks advice from his former lover and brings her to her lodgings. He finds out that she has a small son, named Fredrik. Dressed in a borrowed dressing gown, he is surprised by a knock on the door. Count Malcolm, the owner of the dressing gown, enters. Fredrik and his clothes are thrown out.
Desirée visits her old mother's castle to tell her that she has ended her relationship with Count Malcolm. She asks her mother to arrange a party with Fredrik Egerman and his wife, the count and his wife, and Henrik (Fredrik's son) as guests.
The guests arrive. Frid, the coachman, shows the maid Petra a secret button in Henrik's bedroom. If the button is pressed, a bed from the adjoining bedroom, occupied by Fredrik and Anne, slides into the room.
Desirée and Countess Charlotte are busy with their intrigues. During dinner Henrik indulges in an angry outburst toward his father (Fredrik). Henrik and Anne leave the table. Henrik tries to hang himself in his room but falls against the button that Frid showed Petra. Into the room pivots the bed with the sleeping Anne. Henrik kisses her awake. Frid tells Petra about the three smiles of the summer night. They help Henrik and Anne flee.
Desirée tells Count Malcolm that she has seen Countess Charlotte and Fredrik in the castle's garden pavilion. Malcolm rushes over there, throws his wife out, and challenges his rival to Russian roulette. The two women wait in the park. A shot is heard. The count appears at the door of the pavilion, laughing. He had loaded his gun with soot. Desirée consoles the blackened Fredrik. Over by the haystack Frid promises to marry Petra. The summer night smiles.
1956
LAST COUPLE OUT (Sista Paret Ut)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director: Alf Sjöberg. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cinematography: Martin Bodin. Music: Erik Nordgren, Charles Redland, Bengt Hallberg, and Julius Jacobsen. Art direction: Harald Garmland. Editing: Oscar Rosander. Premiere: November 12, 1956, at Röda Kvarn and Fontänen. Length: 103 minutes. With Olof Widgren (attorney Hans Dahlin), Eva Dahlbeck (Susanne Dahlin), Björn Bjelfvenstam (Bo Dahlin), Johnny Johansson (Sven Dahlin), Märta Arbin (grandmother), Julian Kindahl (Alma), Jarl Kulle (Dr. Farell), Nancy Dalunde (Mrs. Farell), Bibi Andersson (Kerstin), Harriet Andersson (Anita), Aino Taube (Kerstin's mother), Jan-Olof Strandberg (Claes Berg), Hugo Björne (lector), Göran Lundquist (“Knatten”), Kerstin Hörnblad, Mona Malm, Olle Davide, Claes-Håkan Westergren, Lena Söderblom, and Kristina Adolphson (students), Svenerik Perzon (newspaper vendor).
1956
THE SEVENTH SEAL (Det sjunde inseglet)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman, based on his play Wood Painting. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Music: Erik Nordgren. Art Direction: P. A. Lundgren. Editing: Lennart Wallen. Premiere: February 16, 1957, at Röda Kvarn. Length: 96 minutes. With Max von Sydow (Antonius Block), Gunnar Björnstrand (Jons), Nils Poppe (Jof), Bibi Andersson (Mia), Bengt Ekerot (Death), Åke Fridell (Plog), Inga Gill (Lisa), Erik Strandmark (Skat), Bertil Anderberg (Raval), Gunnel Lindblom (speechless woman), Inga Landgré (Block's wife), Anders Ek (monk), Maud Hansson (witch), Gunnar Olsson (church painter), Lars Lind (young monk), Benkt-Åke Benktsson (innkeeper), Gudrun Brost (woman at the inn), Ulf Johanson (leader of the soldiers). On a beach, the knight, Antonius, meets Death. They play chess; at stake is the knight's life.
The clown Jof awakens and sees the Holy Virgin in a vision. He arouses his wife, Mia, and tells her. Antonius and his squire, Jöns, arrive at a church. Jöns speaks to a church painter who is painting the Dance of Death and tells him about the plague. In an abandoned house Jöns surprises a grave robber whom he recognizes as Raval, the initiator of the crusade from which Antonius and J∅ns have just returned. On stage, in front of an audience, Jof and Mia perform. They are interrupted by a procession of flagellants. The clown Skat courts the blacksmith's wife, Lisa.
Plog, the blacksmith, who is looking for Lisa at the inn, attacks the innocent Jof, who is saved by Jöns. When Jof returns to his wagon, Maria offers the knight and Jöns wild strawberries and milk.
The knight encounters Death again. Their chess game continues. Jof and Mia accompany the knight. In the woods Plog finds his wife, Lisa, who is now repentant. Skat pretends to be dead and climbs a tree, but Death cuts it down. In the woods a young woman is burned as a witch responsible for the plague. Raval dies, the victim of pestilence.
Jof watches as the knight and Death continue their chess game. When the knight returns home, his wife is alone in the fortress. She serves the morning meal, and Death knocks on the portal for the last chess move. Morning dawns over Jof and Mia and their son. Jof has another vision: Death dancing off, followed by the Knight and his retinue.
1957
WILD STRAWBERRIES (Smultronstallet)
Production/distribution: Svensk Filmindustri. Director, screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Producer: Allan Ekelund. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Music: Erik Nordgren and Göte Lovén. Art direction: Gittan Gustafsson. Editing: Oscar Rosander. Premiere: December 26, 1957, at Röda Kvarn and Fontänen. Length: 91 minutes. With Victor Sjöström (Isak Borg), Bibi Andersson (Sara),Ingrid Thulin (Marianne), Gunnar Björnstrand (Evald), Folke Sundquist (Anders), Björn Bjelfvenstam (Viktor), Naima Wifstrand (Isak's mother), Julian Kindahl (Agda), Gunnar Sjöberg (engineer Alman), Gunnel Broström (Mrs. Alman), Gertrud Fridh (Isak's wife), Åke Fridell (her lover), Max von Sydow (Åkerman), Sif Ruud (the aunt), Yngve Nordwall (Uncle Aron), Per Sjöstrand (Sigfrid), Gio Petré (Sigbritt), Gunnel Lindblom (Charlotta), Maud Hansson (Angelica), Lena Bergman (Kristina), Per Skogsberg (Hagbart), Göran Lundquist (Benjamin), Eva Norée (Anna), Monica Ehrling (Birgitta), Ann-Mari Wiman (Eva Åkerman), Vendela Rudbäck (Elisabeth), Helge Wulff (promotor).
On the set of Wild Strawberries with Victor Sjöström and Gösta Ekman, a young assistant director.
Professor Isak Borg is to receive an honorary degree at Lund University on his fiftieth anniversary as a professor. During the night he dreams that he finds himself in an unknown, empty city. A coffin falls off a wagon. A hand reaches out from the coffin and grabs hold of him. He sees himself lying in the coffin.
Instead of flying from Stockholm to Lund, Borg decides to drive there. He is accompanied by his daughter-in-law, Marianne. During the trip Marianne tells him about her marriage with Evald and comments on the icy relationship between her father-in-law and her husband. Isak stops the car by a for
est. He tells her that he and his siblings used to stay there every summer, a long, long time ago. Marianne wants to go for a swim and sets out for the lake. Isak gets lost in his memories. He sees his brother Sigfrid kiss Sara, who was Isak's beloved.
He is awakened by a young girl looking for a ride. Her name is also Sara. She and her companions, Anders and Viktor, are given a ride. They come close to colliding with another car, which veers into a ditch. The driver and his wife are given a ride by Borg. Between the new passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Alman, a marital fight breaks out. It reaches such violence that Marianne asks them to get out of the car. After lunch Isak Borg visits his old mother.
Continuing on the drive, he dreams again: he loses Sara to Sigfrid. He is called in for an academic examination by Mr. Alman, who accuses him of emotional frigidity. In a forest he sees his dead wife meet her lover. Marianne tells Isak that she is pregnant and that the reason for her marital crisis is that Evald does not want this new responsibility. Borg is awarded his honorary degree. When he goes to bed, the young people to whom he gave a lift stand outside his window, congratulating him. He speaks with Evald and Marianne. He remembers his childhood again. He and Sara arrive at a place where the wild strawberries grow. On the other side of the bay he sees his father and mother. They wave to him.
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