Sarabande (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Sarabande |
| Original title | Saraband |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language | Swedish |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| camera | Raymond Wemmenlöv Per-Olof Lantto Sofi Stridh Jesper Holmström Stefan Eriksson |
| cut | Sylvia Ingemarsson |
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Sarabande (Original title: Saraband ) is a Swedish television film directed by Ingmar Bergman in 2003 and was Bergman's last film.
Sarabande is the sequel to the television film Scenes from a Marriage from 1973, in which the protagonists Marianne and Johan meet again after they have not seen each other for thirty-two years. Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson play the leading roles again .
action
Marianne's third marriage also failed. She has little contact with her grown daughters from her second marriage (with Johan). Despite his opposition, she decides to visit Johan in his summer home in the Swedish province of Dalarna . Henrik, Johan's son from a previous marriage, and his daughter Karin also live in a nearby house on the summer estate. Anna, Henrik's wife and Karin's mother, died several years ago after a serious illness, but is still present for both - as well as for Johan -. Henrik gives his daughter cello lessons to prepare her for the entrance examination to a music conservatory. Their relationship suffers from Henrik's bossy and fearful care. The relationship between father and son, on the other hand, fluctuates between hatred on the part of Henrik and indifference on the part of Johans, and Henrik owes his father to him. However, both are caring about Karin. When Karin is given the opportunity to audition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki through Johan's relationships , she gets into a conflict. She decides to go her own way instead of the one that others have mapped out for her and accepts a place at a music college in Hamburg . Shortly after Karin's departure, Henrik makes a suicide attempt, which Johan takes outwardly unmoved. After leaving, Marianne kept regular telephone contact with Johan for a while, but Johan too dried up.
background
Production and premiere
Sarabande was Bergman's last directorial work and also his first film made with a digital camera . Because of the loud operating noise of the camera (a Thomson 6000) and the necessary insulation, he had to refrain from his plan to shoot simultaneously with three cameras. The title of the film refers to Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 5 for violoncello , which can also be heard and was used in Schreie und Whispering (1972).
Sarabande was first broadcast on December 1, 2003 on Swedish television and on July 30, 2004 on German television. According to Dagens Nyheter , around 990,000 viewers in Sweden followed the program.
Position in Bergman's work
Although officially a sequel to Scenes from a Marriage , Marianne and Johan's relationship takes up relatively little space in the film; the main conflicts are the relations between Johan and Henrik and Henrik and Karin.
In the prologue and epilogue of the film, Marianne addresses the camera or the audience several times to introduce the story and share her thoughts. Bergman used a similar technique in the exposition and final scene of The Hour of the Wolf (1968). Marianne's glance at her watch to see the passage of a minute and a title display announcing “the hour before dawn” also draw on ideas from this film.
After the violent argument with her father, Karin runs through the forest, disturbed, where she passes a fallen tree. The scene is similar to the shots of the abused girl in The Virgin Spring (1960), which was also shot in Dalarna.
After Henrik's attempt at suicide , Johan confesses that he was repulsed by his son Henrik's wooing for love. Elisabet Vogler uses similar words to describe her aversion to her son in Bergman's Persona (1966).
Already in Bergman's film The Smile of a Summer Night (1955) there was a character named Henrik who was also religious. Instead of an Anna, his love was for an Anne. In Stephen Sondheim's musical adaptation of the film, A Little Night Music , he was also portrayed as a cellist.
Deviations from the previous film
In Sarabande Johan's age is given as 86 years, Mariannes as 63. In scenes of a marriage , the age difference between the two was only seven years instead of 23. Towards the end of scenes from a marriage , Marianne is 45 years old, in Sarabande her age should have been at least 77 years.
more details
The female portrait that is supposed to show Karin's mother and Henrik's wife Anna in the film is actually a shot of Bergman's wife Ingrid von Rosen, who died in 1995.
Reviews
The press coverage of Sarabande was mixed, especially in Bergman's homeland, Sweden. The French Le Nouvel Observateur spoke enthusiastically of the “ultimate work of the master”, which sums up his work. In Germany, the Lexicon of International Films wrote : “The experimental arrangement of a love-hate relationship, arranged in ten scenes, was staged with a masterful simplicity and density as well as great passion for the word. The pessimistic worldview leaves a bitter echo and once again calls to mind the director's deep, existentialist oeuvre. "
Awards
- 2005: "Premio especial" for Ingmar Bergman, awarded by the "Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina" (Association of Film Critics of Argentina)
- 2006: "Special Award" for Ingmar Bergman at the "Sant Jordi Awards"
Web links
- Sarabande in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Isn't Bergman's “Saraband” coming to the cinema? In: FAZ , August 5, 2003
- Whoever talks stays together . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 2004 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Sarabande . Ingmar Bergman Foundation , accessed July 11, 2012.
- ^ A b Sarabande in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Pascal Mérigeau in: Le Nouvel Observateur , December 8, 2004; quoted from the website of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.