Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV NewsIndia TV Spotlight
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Picture WinnersBest Picture WinnersEmmysHispanic & Latino VoicesSTARmeter AwardsSan Diego Comic-ConNew York Comic-ConSundance Film FestivalToronto Int'l Film FestivalAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Mansikkapaikka

Original title: Smultronstället
  • 19571957
  • K-16K-16
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
107K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
6,255
499
Mansikkapaikka (1957)
DramaRomance
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
IMDb RATING
8.1/10
107K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
6,255
499
  • Director
    • Ingmar Bergman
  • Writer
    • Ingmar Bergman
  • Stars
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Bibi Andersson
    • Ingrid Thulin
Top credits
  • Director
    • Ingmar Bergman
  • Writer
    • Ingmar Bergman
  • Stars
    • Victor Sjöström
    • Bibi Andersson
    • Ingrid Thulin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 215User reviews
    • 107Critic reviews
    • 88Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #183
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 18 wins & 4 nominations total

    Photos112

    Gunnar Björnstrand, Victor Sjöström, and Ingrid Thulin in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Victor Sjöström in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Victor Sjöström in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Victor Sjöström and Ingrid Thulin in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Bibi Andersson and Victor Sjöström in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Bibi Andersson, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Victor Sjöström, and Folke Sundquist in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Victor Sjöström and Ingrid Thulin in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Gunnel Broström and Gunnar Sjöberg in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Victor Sjöström in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Victor Sjöström and Naima Wifstrand in Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Mansikkapaikka (1957)

    Top cast

    Edit
    Victor Sjöström
    Victor Sjöström
    • Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg
    Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson
    • Sara…
    Ingrid Thulin
    Ingrid Thulin
    • Marianne Borg
    Gunnar Björnstrand
    Gunnar Björnstrand
    • Dr. Evald Borg
    Jullan Kindahl
    Jullan Kindahl
    • Agda
    Folke Sundquist
    Folke Sundquist
    • Anders
    Björn Bjelfvenstam
    • Viktor
    • (as Björn Bjelvenstam)
    Naima Wifstrand
    Naima Wifstrand
    • Mrs. Borg - Isak's Mother
    Gunnel Broström
    Gunnel Broström
    • Berit Alman
    Gertrud Fridh
    Gertrud Fridh
    • Karin Borg - Isak's wife
    Sif Ruud
    Sif Ruud
    • Aunt Olga
    Gunnar Sjöberg
    Gunnar Sjöberg
    • Sten Alman…
    Max von Sydow
    Max von Sydow
    • Henrik Åkerman
    Åke Fridell
    Åke Fridell
    • Karin's Lover
    Yngve Nordwall
    Yngve Nordwall
    • Uncle Aron
    Per Sjöstrand
    • Sigfrid Borg
    Gio Petré
    Gio Petré
    • Sigbritt Borg
    Gunnel Lindblom
    Gunnel Lindblom
    • Charlotta Borg
    • Director
      • Ingmar Bergman
    • Writer
      • Ingmar Bergman
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      Ingmar Bergman has described in the interview how he came up with the idea while driving from Stockholm to Dalarna, stopping in Uppsala where he had been born and raised, and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was actually the idea behind Mansikkapaikka (1957)"
    • Goofs
      It has been included as a continuity error that Marianne says she is going to go swimming at the old house, but when she returns her hair does not appear to be wet. This is not a continuity error, because when the film was shot in the late 1950s, and for at least a decade afterwards, at least in the Nordic countries women gathered their hair up and covered it with a special swimming cap to protect their hair from becoming wet. Some women who had grown up during those times used swimming caps as late as the 1980s, because they had grown up with the custom, and a swimming cap was to them just as integral part of swimming attire as a swimming suit.
    • Quotes

      Viktor: [to his friend who wants to become a priest] When your were little you belived in Santa Claus, now you belive in God.

    • Connections
      Featured in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
    • Soundtracks
      KUNGLIGA SOEDERMANLANDS REGEMENTES MARSCH
      (uncredited)

      Music by Carl Axel Lundvall

    User reviews215

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    8/10
    One last time around the strawberry patch.
    (Slight Spoilers) A man's life journey is all seen through a number of dreams and hallucinations on his trip, some 400 miles, to the town of Lund where he's to receive a lifetime achievement award for his 50 or so years of service to his fellow man as a doctor and a professor of medicine at his alma mater the Cathedral of Lund.

    Disturbed by a dream he had the night before Isak Borg decides to take a ride by car, not plane, to Lund for a ceremony thats to be in his honor for his work as a man of medicine. Isak's maid for some 40 years Agda is very upset with her boss' and good friends decision and decides to stay at home, she'll eventually show up at the ceremony, feeling that the old man has somehow lost control of his senses. It turns out that the long car trip together with his daughter-in-law Marianne was one of the best decision that he made in his long life, Isak is 78 years old. The trip that Isak takes will bring back past memories that he so desperately tried to hide from himself. That past will in effect make him not only a better person but bring back the feeling of humanity that he lost not only for himself over these long and empty years. Not only for Isak but for those close to him whom he more or less also lost contact with. Isak,in both his dreams and memories, is seen as a man who is unable to show any real feelings for those around and close to him in the fear of either being rejected as well as showing himself to be hurt by their negative responses.

    This defect in Isak personality has cost him the love of his life Sara when he was a young man who rejected him for his handsome and openly aggressive older brother Sigfried. We also see that Isak's marriage to his wife, who had long since passed away, Karin was anything but happy with her disgusted with his inability to show her any real feelings and emotions as a husband. Were also shown, in one of Isak's dreams, that she had an affair with another man Ake Fridell, who was anything but passive with her like her husband Isak was, some 40 years ago behind his back. That may have possibly resulted in the birth of his only child his son, who's also a doctor, Evald Marriane's husband.

    Seeing his 96 year-old mother on his way to Lund we see in her the same human defect that he has in that all of her ten children, who with the exception of Isak are now deceased, never bothered to visit her in her old age. The only time that they had anything to do with her was when they wanted money from the old lady. This coldness and inability to have any attachment to her children is shown not only in both Isak and his mother but in his son Evald who's so disgusted with life and what it had to offer him, like a beautiful and caring wife like Marianne. Evald threatened to walk out on Marianne when after he found out of her being pregnant, I guess by him, she refused his demand of her getting an abortion.

    Isak is helped on his long trip to Lund not only by Marianne but a number of people they meet and in some cases give a ride along the way. This included a young girl and two of her friend going on a trip to Italy ironically named Sara, a virtual twin of the Sara that he loved and lost as a young man. Later Sara together with Anders and Victor who later as a singing group serenade a surprised and grateful, to the point of tears, Isak after he received his award. Meeting among others along the way to far flung Lund a bickering couple Mr. & Mrs. Alman, who almost had Isak and his passengers killed in a head-on car crash. Isak also met a gas station attendant, Henrik, who was so impressed and grateful by what he did for him and his wife in the past , delivered their first child, that he refused to get paid for filling up Isak's gas-tank.

    By the time Isak got to Lund and received his lifetime achievement award to the attendance and cheering of the entire town he not only realized all the good that he did as a man of medicine all these years but also all the hurt that he gave to others, if unintentional. With the little time that he has left, Isak was to pass away three years later at the age of 81, Isak is determined to make up for it.

    Sweet touching yet simple little film about one man's journey back in time who sees how he missed out on the many wonderful things that life had to offer him by being blind to them. Now given a second chance Isak would try as best as he can to both re-live and at the same time correct his past mistakes.
    helpful•23
    2
    • sol-kay
    • Dec 29, 2006

    FAQ4

    • What is "Wild Strawberries" about?
    • Is "Wild Strawberries" based on a book?
    • Where does the title "Wild Strawberries" come from?

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • March 20, 1959 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • Sweden
    • Languages
      • Swedish
      • Latin
    • Also known as
      • Wild Strawberries
    • Filming locations
      • Dalarö, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Production company
      • Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

    Edit
    • Gross worldwide
      • $60,418
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      1 hour 31 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

    Related news

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    Mansikkapaikka (1957)
    Top Gap
    By what name was Mansikkapaikka (1957) officially released in India in English?
    Answer
    • See more gaps
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit page

    More to explore

    View list
    List
    The Best Movies and Shows in September
    See the IMDb Editors' picks
    View list
    List
    IMDb's Top 50 TV Dramas
    See the full list
    View image
    Photos
    We Love These Hollywood Power Couples
    See the gallery

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more access
    Sign in for more access
    • Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • IMDb Developer
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Interest-Based Ads
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2022 by IMDb.com, Inc.