Through a Glass Darkly (film)

Through a Glass Darkly Swedish Ssom i en spegel is a 1961 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and produced by Allan Ekelund. The film is a threeact chamber film, in which four family members act as mirrors for each other. It is the first of many Bergman films to be shot on the island of Fr. Fr is part of Gotland, the largest island in Sweden.

The story takes place during a twentyfour hour period while four family members take their vacation on a remote island, shortly after one of them, Karin Harriet Andersson, is released from an asylum where she has been treated for schizophrenia. Karins husband Martin Max von Sydow tells her father, David, that Karins disease is almost incurable. Meanwhile, Minus Lars Passgrd, Karins 17yearold brother, tells Karin that he wishes he could have a real conversation with his father and cries because he feels deprived of his fathers affection. David Gunnar Bjrnstrand is a novelist suffering from writers block who has just returned from a long trip abroad. He announces he will leave again in a month, though he promised he would stay. The others are upset and David gives them unthoughtful, lastminute presents. He leaves them and sobs alone for a moment. When he returns, the others cheerfully announce that they too have a surprise for David they perform a play for him that Minus has written. David, while feigning approval of the play, takes offense since the play can be interpreted as an attack on his character.That night, after rejecting Martins erotic overtures, Karin wakes up and follows the sound of a foghorn to the attic. She faints after an episode in which she hears voices behind the peeling wallpaper. David, meanwhile, has stayed up all night working on his manuscript. Karin enters his room and tells him she cant sleep, and David tucks her in. Minus asks David to come with him out of the house, and David leaves. Karin looks through Davids desk and finds his diary, learning that her disease is incurable and that her father has a callous hunger to record the details of her deterioration. ........

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