Hos̈tsonaten Autumn sonata

DVD 2013

After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each...

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Dysfunctional families Drama

Mothers and daughters Drama

Pianists Sweden Drama

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Drama Feature films Foreign films -- Sweden Video recordings

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Criterion collection

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ISBN:

1604657774

Description:

2 videodiscs (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
polychrome
digital
optical
stereo
video file
DVD video

Other Title:

Autumn sonata [DVD]
Höstsonaten (Motion picture)

Notes:

Special features: Disc 1: New 2K digital film restoration; Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman (from 2003); Commentary (featuring film critic and Bergman expert Peter Cowie); Liv Ullmann (New interview with the actress); Ingrid Bergman at the NFT (forty-minute conversation between actor Ingrid Bergman and critic John Taylor Russell from 1981, Bergman discusses her career and her experiences working with director Ingmar Bergman); Trailer. Disc 2: The making of Autumn Sonata (a three-and-a-half-hour on set documentary); New English subtitle translation. Booklet features an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme
Originally released as a motion picture in 1978
Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; production designer, Anna Asp ; costume design, Inger Pehrsson ; editor, Sylvia Ingmarsdotter
Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Bjor̈k, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen, Gunnar Bjor̈nstrand, Erland Josephson, Georg Løkkeberg, Mimi Pollak, Linn Ullmann

Control Number:

954804

UPC:

715515110112

Other Authors:

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007
Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Janus Films
Nyman, Lena
Personafilm GmbH
Svensk filmindustri
Ullmann, Liv

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