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<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>A collection of Ingmar Bergman's early films. In 'Torment' (1944), written by Bergman, the life of young student, Jan-Erik (Alf Kjellin) becomes enmeshed with his sadistic Latin teacher, nicknamed 'Caligula' (Stig Järrel), and a newsagent assistant-cum-prostitute, Bertha (Mai Zetterling). When Jan-Erik assists the drunken Bertha home, he becomes her lover and discovers that she is terrified of another man. When Jan-Erik finds Bertha dead, he accuses Caligula of being responsible. In 'Crisis' (1946), Bergman's directorial debut, 18-year-old Nelly (Inga Landgre) lives a quiet life in a small town with her foster mother. Attracted by the promise of a more exciting life, Nelly leaves the small town to join her real mother in Stockholm. Once there, she soon discovers that there is a much darker side to human nature that she never knew existed. 'Eva' (1948), written by Bergman and directed by Gustaf Molander, is set in neutral Sweden during WWII. Bo (Birger Malmsten) is a sailor recently returned from the Navy who starts courting Eva (Eva Stiberg), but has reawakened feelings of guilt about a childhood accident in which he was responsible for a young girl's death. Although they become happily married, and Eva becomes pregnant, Bo is still plagued by nightmares and guilt, including a dream that he is about to brutally murder his best friend. When Eva is about to give birth, Bo's fear that he will be responsible for another death sends him back to the high seas. In 'Music in Darkness' (1948), directed by Bergman, Bengt (Birger Malmsten) is a promising young musician who is accidentally blinded in a firing range accident when completing his military service. Becoming isolated and withdrawn, he refuses all offers of help from the people closest to him, until he hires Ingrid (Zetterling) to act as his assistant. Gradually falling in love with her, but dissatisfied at his inability to earn a living as a pianist, Bengt enrols at a school for the blind, expecting Ingrid to be waiting for him when he graduates. However, Ingrid has moved on and is now in a committed relationship, a situation that provokes Bengt to a fit of violence in an attempt to make himself feel whole again. Bergman writes and directs 'Port of Call' (1948), a brooding and uncompromising tale of oppressive and destructive relationships set on the waterfront of the bleak Gothenburg harbour. Berit Holm (Nine-Christine Jönsson) is a lonely and disturbed young woman who has worked as a prostitute and spent years in mental institutions. When she meets impoverished deckhand Gosta (Bengt Eklund), the two begin a romance, but Gosta struggles to overcome his puritanical attitude towards Berit's difficult past. In 'Prison' (1949), written and directed by Bergman, a mathematics teacher approaches one of his former pupils who has become a film director, and asks him to consider an idea for a film about a world where the Devil has declared Earth to be Hell. While the director considers this idea, he is interviewed by a journalist and finds himself recounting a terrible event from his past, that may have a bearing on his next project. In 'Three Strange Loves' (1949), based on four short stories by Birgit Tengroth, who also stars as Viola. Neurotic ballet dancer Ruth (Eva Henning) and her husband Bertil (Birger Malmsten) are travelling from Switzerland to Sweden across war-torn Germany. As they travel, they argue bitterly over his love affairs and her inability to conceive, the result of a previous abortion - in between handing food out of the train windows to starving Germans. Meanwhile, a partially obscured love triangle emerges as the focus shifts to Viola, Bertil's mistress, who is wandering through the streets of Stockholm on a midsummer night, having been dismissed as insane by a psychiatrist who tried but failed to seduce her. By chance she meets an old school friend, Valborg (Mimi Nelson), a lesbian who also attempts to seduce her. Finally, in 'To Joy' (1950), written and directed by Bergman, Marta (Maj-Britt Nilsson) and Stig (Stig Olin) meet and marry while playing in an orchestra. However, their relationship deteriorates after Stig has an affair.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set (Limited Edition)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>A collection of eight Ingmar Bergman films from 1951-58. In 'Summer Interlude' (1951) Mari (Maj-Britt Nilsson), a young ballerina, seeks refuge from an unhappy homelife by staying with her uncle and aunt on an island near Stockholm. Despite her uncle's possessiveness, Mari falls for a young man, Henrik (Birger Malmsten), and before she has to return to the city, they express their love for one another. But Henrik is killed in a swimming accident, and Mari has to return to the city and cope with a life alone. Years later, when she discovers her diary of her stay on the island, Mari returns to the island to confront her uncle. With the past finally dealt with she returns to her life of dancing and her new lover with a renewed outlook. In 'Waiting Women' (1952) the wives of four brothers relate to each other the stories of their marriages as they sit in a summer cottage and wait for their husbands to return, stories that include infidelity, light-hearted romance, and the difficulties of raising children. While they talk, one of the women's young sister, Maj (Gerd Andersson), is planning to elope without her sister's knowledge. 'Summer With Monika' (1953) stars Harriet Andersson as Monika Eriksson, a girl from Stockholm who falls in love with a young man on holiday. When Monika becomes pregnant, they are forced into a marriage, which begins to fall apart soon after they take up residence in a cramped little flat. In 'A Lesson of Love' (1954) Gunnar Björnstrand and Eva Dahlbeck star as David and Marianne Erneman, a couple who have been married for 16 years and find themselves in need of a little diversion. David, who is a gynaecologist, throws professional parameters to the wind and embarks on an affair with one of his patients, while Marianne, in retaliation, promptly departs for Copenhagen to take up with an old flame, Carl-Adam (Åke Grönberg) - who also happens to be David's oldest friend. Only when his own affair ends and he spends the day with his teenage daughter, Nix (Harriet Andersson), does David decide to follow Marianne to Denmark and try to win her back. 'Smiles of a Summer Night' (1955) focuses on a group of couples, ex-couples and would-be couples during a midsummer weekend in 1900. During the course of the weekend a game of love ensues between the players as three couples meet, separate and exchange partners. In 'The Seventh Seal' (1957), Bergman's iconic allegorical drama, when knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) returns from the Crusades to his plague-ridden homeland he engages Death (Bengkt Ekerot) in a game of chess. This leads the knight to ponder the question of whether or not God exists. 'Wild Strawberries' (1957), starring Victor Sjöström, charts the journey of aged Professor Isak Borg (Sjöström) as he travels by car to his old alma mater, where he is to receive an honorary degree. Accompanied by his daughter-in-law, Marianne (Ingrid Thulin), who is travelling to meet her estranged husband, the Professor finds himself the subject of unsettling visions from his past, recalling lost loves and his own failed marriage. As the pair are interrupted by a youthful love triangle and a feuding older couple Isak is forced to confront his own coldness, and the possibility that his life has been wasted. Finally, in 'The Magician' (1958) von Sydow plays a 19th century mesmerist who is charged with blasphemy and questioned by the authorities, in an attempt to prove him a fraud.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set (Limited Edition)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>A collection of seven films written and directed by Ingmar Bergman from 1972-1984. 'Cries and Whispers' (1972) follows three sisters who are effectively cut off from the rest of society. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) is terminally ill and has become a great emotional burden on sisters Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann). Through flashbacks we learn of the emotional resentments and deceits that have marked their lives in interconnecting ways, against the backdrop of Agnes' recurrent cries of pain in her final days. In contrast to this filial bitterness, only the servant Anna (Kari Sylwan) remains truly faithful and open-hearted towards Agnes as death approaches. In 'Scenes from a Marriage' (1973) Bergman examines a relationship as it falls apart and explores the effects this has on the individuals involved. Ullmann and Erland Josephson play a successful couple who are interviewed by a television reporter and who appear to be happily married. However, things are not always as they seem and Bergman follows the couple at different intervals to show why the couple eventually divorce, find new partners and even attempt becoming lovers again. 'Autumn Sonata' (1978) explores the relationship between a mother and daughter who get together after seven years of estrangement. Ingrid Bergman stars as Charlotte, the self-absorbed concert pianist mother, with Ullmann as her resentful daughter Eva. 'Fårö Document' (1979) is the follow-up to the 1970 documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö. He once again observes the lives of the locals on the island where he lived and shot numerous features. 'From the Life of the Marionettes' (1980) focuses on Katarina and Peter Egermann (Christine Buchegger and Robert Atzorn), a seemingly perfect but childless couple. Peter harbours dark fantasies about killing his wife and, when he becomes involved with a prostitute also called Katarina (Rita Russek), events take a dark turn. With Peter accused of her murder, we see the Egermann's lives explored in flashbacks and dreams. In Bergman's semi-autobiographical story 'Fanny and Alexander' (1982), young sister and brother Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve)'s comfortable lives change dramatically when their father dies onstage during a performance of 'Hamlet'. Their mother marries a puritanical bishop and the new family move into the bishop's draughty home, where the children are mistreated and their mother becomes consumed with regrets. Finally, in 'After the Rehearsal' (1984) theatre director Henrik Volger (Josephson) is struggling to stage a play by August Strindberg. Staying behind after rehearsals to work, Henrik talks with aspiring actress Anna (Lena Olin), who he has just cast in the production. It transpires that Henrik was once involved with her late mother, Rakel (Thulin), and Anna's visit causes him to reminisce about their doomed relationship and about the nature of his own closed-off emotional state. All five episodes of Bergman's 'Fanny and Alexander' television series from 1983 are also included.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set with Book (Limited Edition)</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>A collection of eight films directed by Ingmar Bergman from 1960-69. In 'The Virgin Spring' (1960) a young girl is raped and murdered by three goatherds while on her way to church. The girl's killers then take refuge at a farm, not knowing that it is owned by the parents of the girl they have just killed. When the mother finds her daughter's bloodied robe and realises what has happened, the father avenges his daughter's death, causing a spring to bubble up on the spot she was killed. In 'The Devil's Eye' (1960) Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) is sent back to Earth by Satan (Stig Järrel) to deflower Virtue (Bibi Andersson), the daughter of a country parson. However, despite Don Juan's celebrated powers of seduction, he only succeeds in amusing Virtue, who finds his advances laughable. 'Through a Glass Darkly' (1961) traces a schizophrenic young woman (Harriet Andersson)'s descent into madness as she spends a holiday on a remote island with her father, brother and husband. Her husband is a doctor but feels helpless, her father seems to watch her disease with fascination and keeps a journal of her condition, whilst she seduces her 17-year-old brother when she discovers he is a virgin. In 'The Silence' (1963) the relationship between sisters Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) reaches breaking point when they arrive in a strange country and stay in a large hotel, empty but for a troupe of dwarf entertainers. Ester is suffering from a terminal disease and has become overly protective of Anna and, to escape, Anna goes out to find a man and ends up bringing back a waiter to her room. This then proceeds to both arouse and anger Ester culminating in a bitter and violent argument between the sisters. In 'Winter Light' (1963) a pastor (Gunnar Björnstrand) who seems to have lost his faith after his wife's death finds himself unable to give spiritual reassurance to a local fisherman (Max von Sydow), whose wife Marta (Thulin) has long been in love with the pastor. As the pastor deals with his own demons and the (to him repulsive) advances of Marta he finds that God may still have some hold over him. 'All These Women' (1964) is an acerbic comedy exposing the egotism and pretentiousness rife in the world of artists and critics. Cornelius (Kulle) is a self-important and highly opinionated critic who has been bribed by the egocentric womaniser Felix, a famous cellist, to write his biography. But when Cornelius arrives at Felix's lavish home, he finds a string of women in the house, all determined to protect their maestro's privacy. The situation goes from frustrating to humiliating for Cornelius as he is dressed up in women's clothing, photographed in compromising positions and bombarded with fireworks. He never does get to meet the elusive Felix but finds out a lot about him from the women in the house and, armed with this information, decides to blackmail Felix into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written. In 'Persona' (1966) Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann) is a famous actress who is taken ill and left without speech. While convalescing on the coast, she is cared for by Nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) and, silenced by the effect of her - possibly psychosomatic - illness, finds that her nurse does the talking for both of them. Gradually, the two women's personalities merge and the boundaries between their identities begin to blur. Finally, 'The Rite' (1969), Bergman's drama-about-a-drama originally made for Swedish television in 1969, asks questions about obscenity, censorship and the role of the artist. Three actors from a theatre troupe that had its latest production, 'The Rite', banned after being charged with obscenity are each interrogated privately by a provincial magistrate. The trio are incestuously involved: Thea (Thulin) is married to Hans (Björnstrand) but is having an affair with Sebastian (Anders Ek), who killed her former husband in a crime of passion. The judge, playing on the insecurities and vanity of the three actors, brings to light their deepest, darkest secrets.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Box Set (Limited Edition)</i>