Screenplay translated from Swedish into English based on the mini-series about a conventional couple with a seemingly perfect marriage who slip into divorce and an ever more complicated relationship.

A screenplay about the mysterious, complicated and emotionally-charged relationship between mother and daughter. Set in a small town in Norway, a mother and daughter seek and repulse each other by turns, when Charlotte Andergast comes to visit her daughter Eva.

Each interview lasted on an average four hours. Altogether we spoke with Bergman about his films for rather more than fifty hours. About half our conversations were tape recorded. This book is based exclusively on this interview material. - Foreword.

The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie - Winter Light. This documentary film offers views on set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew.

"Traveling home by train through a country seemingly on the brink of war, two sisters--the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic Anna--along with Anna's young son, Johan, are forced to disembark in an unknown city in order for Ester to rest. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, the sisters resort to their personal vices while vying for Johan's affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their ambiguous relationship."--Container...

Told through the eyes of Alexander and his sister Fanny, we see the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately...