Saraband
(DVD Video)

Originally produced for broadcast on Swedish television in 2003.

Special feature: I Bergmans regi [Directed by Bergman] [featurette] (44 min.); Previews (5 min.).

Fotografer, Raymond Wemmenlov, Per-Olaf Lantto, Sofi Stridh ; klippning [editor], Sylvia Ingemarsson ; art designer, Goran Wassberg ; costume designer, Inger Pehrson.

Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred.

Saraband is a revisitation to 1973's Scenes From a Marriage, as thirty-odd years have passed in the lives of former husband and wife Johan and Marianne. An inner prompting has sent Marianne to visit Johan in his ramshackle but finely appointed house in the middle of the forest, where she becomes a sounding board for the emotional wreckage she encounters there: Henrik (Johan's 61-year-old son) and Henrik's 19-year-old daughter, Karin. Henrik and Karin are musicians, both locked in grief over the death of wife and mother Anna two years earlier. Infused with the unsentimental, gentle humor of distanced perspective and thoughtful reflection, this is another of Bergman's provocative expositions into the most fundamental human need: connection.

MPAA rating: R; for brief nudity, language, and a violent image.

DVD; Region 1; Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; anamorphic widescreen, presentation aspect ratio 1.78:1.

In Swedish with optional subtitles in English, French (Canadian), or Portuguese (Brazilian).