After the test
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | After the test |
| Original title | More repetitions |
| Country of production | Sweden , Germany |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Jörn Donner |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Sylvia Ingemarsson |
| occupation | |
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After the rehearsal (original title Efter repetionen ) is a Swedish - German television film by Ingmar Bergman from 1983 .
action
The aging theater director Henrik Vogler is studying a performance of August Strindberg's drama Ein Traumspiel . After the rehearsal, he thinks about it. Anna Egerman, the play's young lead actress, returns to the theater under a pretext. A dialogue develops in the course of which Anna speaks of her aversion to her mother, Rakel, who died of alcoholism. Rakel was Henrik's former lover and the star of his productions. Present and past, reality and fantasy mix: Rakel appears, tries to seduce Henrik. When he refuses, she falls into bitter indictment against her husband, daughter Anna and Henrik. After Rakel leaves, Henrik and Anna continue their conversation. Anna tells of her broken relationship and her abortion, which she may have had her boyfriend, perhaps for the sake of her career. Together she and Henrik imagine how the relationship between them would develop if they got involved in an affair, from the cautious beginnings to brief passions and jealous scenes to the break after the premiere. Because of her conversation, Anna forgot her test appointment on a radio show; she leaves the theater, Henrik falls back into his brooding.
background
After the rehearsal , the film was shot in the “Filmhuset studios” of the Swedish Film Institute , Stockholm . Bergman described the filming as "listless" because he had trouble with two of his long-time cast members, Erland Josephson and Ingrid Thulin . His dissatisfaction with the results led him to shorten the finished film by twenty minutes to 72 minutes. After the rehearsal , the last joint film was with his long-time cameraman Sven Nykvist .
Bergman had announced that his film Fanny and Alexander (1982) would be his last feature film. After the rehearsal was produced exclusively for television, it was shown out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival and at the Munich Film Festival . The film was broadcast on April 9, 1984 on Swedish television and on April 22, 1985 in Germany on ZDF. Since producer Jörn Donner had also sold the theatrical rights to the US distributor Triumph Films, this was shown in the US in spite of Bergman's protest. It was also shown in the cinema in France, under the title Après la répétition .
Parallels in Bergman's work
Bergman used the names Vogler and Egerman in earlier films, for example in The Face . There Mrs. Egerman tries to seduce her guest Mr. Vogler, head of the "Magnetic Healing Theater".
Reviews
“Although a pure dialogue piece with a single setting, a masterful (television) production by Ingmar Bergman. With the simplest means, complicated relationships and even different time levels are seemingly light-handed and unpretentiously condensed into a psychologically profound reflection on the theater, the roles, the relationships between the actresses and their director, between art and life. "
Web links
- After the trial in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ingmar Bergman: Pictures, Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-462-02133-8 , pp. 196-201.
- ^ Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman: His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 262-263.
- ^ After the rehearsal in the archives of the Cannes International Film Festival, accessed on July 19, 2012.
- ↑ a b After the sample on the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed on July 19, 2012.
- ↑ a b After the rehearsal in the Lexicon of International Films .