From the Life of the Marionettes

From the Life of the Marionettes German Aus dem Leben der Marionetten is a 1980 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film was produced in West Germany with a German language screenplay and soundtrack while Bergman was in tax exile from his native Sweden. It is filmed in black and white apart from two colour sequences at the beginning and end of the movie. It is set in Munich. The title is a quotation excerpted from a passage in The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

The film was shot in the Bavaria Film Studios in Munich from October to December 1979. It begins in colour, but all the flashbacks are in black and white. The film was originally made for television and had its TV premiere on German ZDF onNovember 1980. The very first showing, however, was at a small film festival in OxfordJuly 1980, followed by festival showings in Paris and the Netherlands in October 1980. After the German TV premiere the film went on general cinema release, starting with Zoo Palast in Berlin onNovember 1980.The film opened to good and occasional cautionary reviews. Many felt Bergmans film was too heavy to be considered real drama, but they did like the performances of the German cast, including Robert Atzorn. ........

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