Director
Ingmar Bergm
Leading Actors/Actresses
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephsonan
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Bibi Andersson, Jan Malmsjo
Genre
Drama
Language
Swedish
Awards
n/a
Date of Release
1973 (TV Mini-Series), 1974 (Film Version)
Producer
Lars-Owe Carlberg
Setting and Context
Stockholm and Fårö, Sweden - 1973
Narrator and Point of View
POV is that of Marianne and Johan.
Tone and Mood
Serious and Dramatic
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonists and Antagonists are Johan and Marianne.
Major Conflict
Johan has been having an affair with a younger woman, causing the divorce of himself and Marianne.
Climax
Marianne and Johan both remarry, but eventually begin an affair with one another.
Foreshadowing
Katarina and Peter's meltdown at dinner with Johan and Marianne foreshadow the "perfect" couple's collapse.
Understatement
It is understated that Marianne had an affair early on in their marriage.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
The film is an allusion to how many people in marriages don't speak about what is going on inside of them, thus neglecting one another's interior lives and thus creating decay in the marriage.
Paradox
Marianne and Johan get a divorce. Paradoxically, they begin to be closer, more intimate when they begin an affair together after they've remarried.
Parallelism
Johan and Marianne in bed in someone else's cottage parallels them being in bed together when married, except at home they were strangers in their home, while they were closer in a strange place at the end of the film.
