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Face to Face
Written byIngmar Bergman
Directed byIngmar Bergman
StarringLiv Ullmann
Erland Josephson
Gunnar Björnstrand
Aino Taube
Kristina Adolphson
Country of originSweden
Original languageSwedish
Production
ProducerLars-Owe Carlberg
Running time114 minutes
Original release
Release5 April 1976 (1976-04-05) (United States)
28 April 1976 (1976-04-28) (Sweden)

Face to Face (Template:Lang-sv) is a 1976 Swedish psychological drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.

It is also the film debut of Lena Olin.

Releases

The film was conceived and produced as a four-part mini-series on Swedish television with a running time of 177 minutes. The episodes were entitled:

  1. Uppbrottet (The Separation)
  2. Gränsen (The Border)
  3. Skymningslandet (The Twilight Land)
  4. Återkomsten (The Return)

It was edited down for theatrical releases for running times from 114 to 135 minutes. However, the theatrical version premiered first.[1] The film was later screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival held in May, but was not entered into the main competition.[2] The television version aired in Sweden over four weeks in May and June of that year, and has not been released for home media.

Plot

Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullmann) is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function as a wife, doctor, or individual.

Cast

Principal cast (in credits order)

Rest of cast (in alphabetical order)

Awards

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress (Ullmann) and Best Director (Bergman).

Ullmann was nominated by BAFTA in the Best Actress category.

She was also named Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, with the film winning Best Foreign Language Film at the latter.

It also was named by the Golden Globes as their Best Foreign Language Film of the year, with Ullmann also being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

At the beginning of the Woody Allen film Annie Hall, Allen's character refuses to see Face to Face after arriving a few minutes late for a showing. He instead takes Annie (Diane Keaton) to a screening of The Sorrow and the Pity.

References

  1. ^ "Face to Face (1976)". The Swedish Film Database. The Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Face to Face". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 May 2009.
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