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The Passion of Anna

Original title: En passion
  • 19691969
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  • 1h 41m
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7.6/10
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The Passion of Anna (1969)
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
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A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
IMDb RATING
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9.9K
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    • Ingmar Bergman
    • Ingmar Bergman
  • Stars
    • Liv Ullmann
    • Bibi Andersson
    • Max von Sydow
    • Ingmar Bergman
    • Ingmar Bergman
  • Stars
    • Liv Ullmann
    • Bibi Andersson
    • Max von Sydow
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    • 49User reviews
    • 30Critic reviews
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    Max von Sydow in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Erik Hell and Liv Ullmann in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Bibi Andersson in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Bibi Andersson in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Liv Ullmann in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Liv Ullmann in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Max von Sydow in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Max von Sydow in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Bibi Andersson in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Max von Sydow in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Erland Josephson in The Passion of Anna (1969)
    Liv Ullmann in The Passion of Anna (1969)

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    Liv Ullmann
    Liv Ullmann
    • Anna Fromm…
    Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson
    • Eva Vergérus…
    Max von Sydow
    Max von Sydow
    • Andreas Winkelman…
    Erland Josephson
    Erland Josephson
    • Elis Vergérus…
    Erik Hell
    Erik Hell
    • Johan Andersson
    Sigge Fürst
    Sigge Fürst
    • Verner
    m. fl.
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Britta Brunius
    Britta Brunius
    • Woman in Dream
    • (uncredited)
    Lars-Owe Carlberg
    • Police Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Malin Ek
    Malin Ek
    • Woman in Dream
    • (uncredited)
    Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
    Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
    • Woman in Dream
    • (uncredited)
    Svea Holst
    • Verner's Wife
    • (uncredited)
    Marianne Karlbeck
    • Woman in Dream
    • (uncredited)
    Annicka Kronberg
    • Katarina
    • (uncredited)
    Hjördis Petterson
    Hjördis Petterson
    • Johan's Sister
    • (uncredited)
    Brian Wikström
    • Police Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Brita Öberg
    Brita Öberg
    • Woman in Dream
    • (uncredited)
      • Ingmar Bergman
      • Ingmar Bergman
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    • Trivia
      The alternate title "L 182" is the production number, also seen written on the clapperboard before the interview scenes.
    • Quotes

      Anna Fromm: Andreas, we should travel somewhere. We should get away from here. I know it would be good for us both.

      Andreas Winkelman: When you speak of traveling, I really want to say yes.

      Anna Fromm: What are you thinking?

      Andreas Winkelman: That we can speak to Elis. He can lend us money. But at the same time a wall appears. I can't speak. I can't show that I'm happy. I can see your face, I know you're you, but I can't reach you. Do you understand what I mean?

      Anna Fromm: I understand what you mean. I understand very well, Andreas.

      Andreas Winkelman: I'm on the outside of this wall. I put myself on the outside. I fled and now I'm so far away.

      Anna Fromm: I understand, Andreas. I understand how strange it seems.

      Andreas Winkelman: Yes, it's strange. I want to be warm, tender and alive. I want to break free. You understand, don't you?

      Anna Fromm: It's like a dream. You want to move, you know what to do, but you can't. Legs are impossible and arms heavy as lead. You want to speak, but you can't.

      Andreas Winkelman: I'm terrified of being humiliated. It's constant misery. I've accepted the humiliation and let them become part of me. Do you understand what I mean?

      Anna Fromm: I understand what you mean. I understand you.

      Andreas Winkelman: It's terrible not being fortunate. Everybody thinks they have the right to decide over you. Their benevolent contempt. A momentary desire to trample something living.

      Anna Fromm: I understand, Andreas. You don't need...

      Andreas Winkelman: I'm dead, Anna. No, no, I'm not dead. No, that's wrong. Too melodramatic. I'm not dead at all. But I live without self-respect. I know it sounds silly - pretentious - since almost all people are forced to live without self-worth. Humiliated to the core, stifled and spat upon. They just live. They know nothing more. They know no alternative. Even if they did, they would never reach for it. You understand? Can you be sick from humiliation? Is it a disease we're all infected by and we have to live with? We talk so much about freedom, Anna. Isn't freedom a terrible poison for the humiliated... or is the word "freedom" only a drug the humiliated use in order to endure. I can't live with this. I've given up. Sometimes it's almost unbearable. The days drag by. I feel like I'm choking on the food I swallow, the crap I get rid of, the words I say. The light - the daylight which comes every morning and yells at me to get up. Or the sleep which always brings dreams, chasing me back and forth. Or just the darkness rattling with ghosts and memories. Has it occurred to you, Anna, that the worse off people are, the less they complain? Eventually they're silent... even though they're living creatures with nerves, eyes and hands. Massive armies of both victims and executioners. The light which rises and sinks heavily. The cold approaches. Darkness. The heat. The smell. And everyone is silent. We can never leave this place. I don't believe in escape. It's too late. Everything's too late.

    • Alternate versions
      The UK version is cut by 25 seconds to remove the sight of a dog hanging by its neck, in accordance with the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.
    • Connections
      Featured in Liv Ullmann scener fra et liv (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      Always Romantic
      Performed by Allan Gray

    User reviews49

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    Mockumentary scenes to pull you out of a Bergman film... Just what we didn't ask for.
    Disappointing after Shame, which was near-perfect. Clearly an experiment to break the third wall in a Bergman film, just not at all something I wanted from a Bergman film. I like to be completely absorbed in the reality of the situation. An improvised dinner-party scene where the actors bandy about miscellaneous pretentious ideas, mockumentary moments where "Liv Ullman" and "Max von Sydow" are interviewed about the characters just didn't work for me. I had to turn it off. Will try again at a later date maybe, but I've only just started finding Bergman films I love, this was not a good choice...

    There were scenes I liked, but then I'd get dragged out of the spell by the mockumentary scenes, very strange.

    4/10
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    • May 14, 2015

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    • Release date
      • May 28, 1970 (United States)
      • Sweden
      • Swedish
    • Also known as
      • Fårö, Gotlands län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Svensk Filmindustri (SF)
      • Cinematograph AB
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    • 1 hour 41 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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