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Cries and Whispers
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7.9As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.
Cast
- Liv Ullmann as Maria
- Ingrid Thulin as Karin
- Kari Sylwan as Anna
- Harriet Andersson as Agnes
- Erland Josephson as David
- Georg Årlin as Fredrik
Themes
- dying and death
- sibling relationship
- sweden
- sister
- cancer
- mansion
- 19th century
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
39,520 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
- Year
- 1972
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 22 wins & 12 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Written by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Produced by
- Lars-Owe Carlberg
- Starring
- Harriet Andersson , Kari Sylwan , Ingrid Thulin , Liv Ullmann
- Cinematography
- Sven Nykvist
- Edited by
- Siv Lundgren
- Music by
- Johann Sebastian Bach , Frédéric Chopin
- Production company
- Svensk Filmindustri
- Distributed by
- Svensk Filmindustri
- Release dates
- 21 December 1972 ( 1972-12-21 ) (United States) 5 March 1973 ( 1973-03-05 ) (Sweden)
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Country
- Sweden
- Language
- Swedish
- Budget
- $450,000
- Box office
- SEK 2,130,705 (Sweden), $1.5 million (U.S.) , $3.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- historical film
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Original language
- Swedish
- Main subject
- tumor
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Screenwriter
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cast member
- Georg Årlin
- Composer
- Pierre Fournier
- Producer
- Liv Ullmann
- Production company
- SF Studios
- Cinematographer
- Sven Nykvist
- Duration
- 90
- FilmAffinity ID
- 297219
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1973-03-05
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Costume Design
- title
- Viskningar och rop
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- Commons category
- Cries and Whispers
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 94%
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Encyclopedic overview
Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop, lit. 'Whispers and cries') is a 1972 Swedish tragedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other.
Inspired by Bergman's mother, Karin Åkerblom, and his vision of four women in a red room, Cries and Whispers was filmed at Taxinge-Näsby Castle in 1971. Its themes include faith, the female psyche and the search for meaning in suffering, and academics have found Biblical allusions. Unlike previous Bergman films, it uses saturated colour, crimson in particular.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cries and Whispers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.