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Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point mutilating her own vagina out of self-hatred. As for Andersson, she has been in pain so long that she feels as though she's in the midst of death-in-life. With her two sisters wrapped up in their own problems, Harriet turns to her housekeeper Kari Sylwan for comfort; Sylwan has herself suffered the death of a child, and has developed a philosophical attitude towards impending doom. One of the most influential moments of the film -- when two of the sisters share the innermost thoughts that they'd kept from one another for so many years -- is filmed without benefit of dialogue, with the music of Chopin (enhanced by cinematographer Sven Nykvist's carefully selected camera angles) "speaking" for the ladies. While Cries and Whispers only won the Oscar for cinematography, the film did very well for itself in international awards contests.
CONDTION: NEW
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Directors: Ingmar Bergman
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
R
Restricted
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
DVD Release Date: March 31, 2015
Run Time: 91 minutes
Cast & Crew
Harriet Andersson Agnes
Kari Sylwan Anna
Ingrid Thulin Karin
Liv Ullmann Maria
Erland Josephson David, the doctor
Henning Moritzen Joakin, Maria's Husband
George Arlin Fredrik
Kary Sylway Actor
Lars-Owe Carlberg Spectator
Anders Ek Pastor Isak
Inga Gill Aunt Olga
Linn Ullmann Maria's daughter
Technical Credits
Ingmar Bergman Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Lars-Owe Carlberg Producer
Cecilia Drott Makeup
Siv Lundgren Editor
Borje Lundh Makeup
Sven Nykvist Cinematographer
Marik Vos-Lundh Costumes/Costume Designer,Production Designer
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