Autumn Sonata / Høstsonaten

Director  Ingmar Bergman / Sweden, West Germany/1978/Colour/99’/Swedish, Norwegian, English

Director and Screenplay Ingmar Bergman Producer Katinka Faraggo DoP Sven Nykvist Editor Sylvia Ingemarsson Music Frederic Chopin Cast Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman

Mother and daughter begin an impassioned rediscovery and clarification of their past relationship. Eva’s husband overhears this unexpectedly heightened exchange, but wisely decides not to participate and interfere. Hearing this impassioned exchange, her disabled younger sister painfully forces herself out of her bed and starts crawling up to the stairs to where Eva and Charlotte are arguing.