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Director:
Writer:
Ingmar Bergman (writer)
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Release Date:
7 November 1980 (USA) more
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Plot:
Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Robert Atzorn ... Peter Egermann
Heinz Bennent ... Arthur Brenner
Martin Benrath ... Professor Mogens Jensen
Toni Berger ... The Guard
Christine Buchegger ... Katarina Egerman
Gaby Dohm ... Frau Anders - Secretary
Erwin Faber
Lola Müthel ... Cordelia Egermann
Ruth Olafs ... Nurse
Karl-Heinz Pelser ... The Interrogator
Rita Russek ... Katharina Kraft
Walter Schmidinger ... Tim Mandelbaum
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Heino Hallhuber ... The Choreographer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
From the Life of the Marionettes
Ur marionetternas liv (Sweden)
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Runtime:
104 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor) | Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | Argentina:16 | UK:18 (video rating) (2002) | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:12
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Spin off from Scener ur ett äktenskap (1973) more

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Angst is the human condition, 3 October 2009
8/10
Author: ferdinand1932

This is totally engaging but its almost just theater: the long scenes, still camera, monologues, exposition of internal psycho-drama and chapters that structure the entire film.

But most of all its the interest and compassion contained in the human face and voice that Bergman makes central. That had been part of Bergman's work for a long time, just look at "Through a Glass Darkly". The characters are moving through space but not able to connect with each other at all, they simulate free will but they are not able to live it.

Having said all of the above the photography and set ups are occasionally sublime, the sort of thing that was the essence of cinema, but not so any more.

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