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Scenes from a Marriage

Original title: Scener ur ett äktenskap
  • TV Mini Series
  • 19731973
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 4h 43m
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8.5/10
17K
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Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Drama
Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan.
IMDb RATING
8.5/10
17K
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  • Stars
    • Liv Ullmann
    • Erland Josephson
    • Bibi Andersson
  • Stars
    • Liv Ullmann
    • Erland Josephson
    • Bibi Andersson
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    • 53User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
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    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
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    Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
    Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Scenes from a Marriage (1973)

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    Liv Ullmann
    Liv Ullmann
    • Marianne
    Erland Josephson
    Erland Josephson
    • Johan
    Bibi Andersson
    Bibi Andersson
    • Katarina
    Gunnel Lindblom
    Gunnel Lindblom
    • Eva
    Jan Malmsjö
    Jan Malmsjö
    • Peter
    Wenche Foss
    • Modern
    Anita Wall
    Anita Wall
    • Fru Palm, journalist
    Bertil Norström
    Bertil Norström
    • Arne
    Rossana Mariano
    • Eva, 12 år
    Lena Bergman
    • Karin, syster till Eva
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    • Pressfotografens röst
    Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
    Barbro Hiort af Ornäs
    • Fru Jacobi
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    • Trivia
      According to an interview with Ingmar Bergman, after the TV mini-series was broadcast in Sweden, the divorce rate in Sweden increased substantially and the number of married couples who seek marriage counseling also doubled.
    • Quotes

      Johan: We're emotional illiterates. We've been taught about anatomy and farming methods in Africa. We've learned mathematical formulas by heart. But we haven't been taught a thing about our souls. We're tremendously ignorant about what makes people tick.

    • Crazy credits
      The end credits aren't shown on-screen but read by director and writer Ingmar Bergman, while "a beautiful picture of Fårö" is shown (different for each episode). Bergman himself is not credited at all.
    • Alternate versions
      Bergman prepared a four-hour version of "Scenes from a Marriage," hoping it would be shown as a two-part film. It never appeared in the US, although the original six-hour mini-series was shown on PBS after the 168 minute cut had played theatrically.
    • Connections
      Edited into Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
    • Soundtracks
      Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in B flat major, Op. 10, No. 1
      (uncredited)

      Written by Tomaso Albinoni

      A short extract is played during the very beginning and end of each episode (it's not featured in the theatrical version)

    User reviews53

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    9/10
    Bergman's Version of a Cage Match
    After "Wild Strawberries," this is perhaps my favorite Bergman movie, though be warned: it will take the wind out of you, especially if you watch the full five-hour version in a condensed period of time, as I did.

    Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson create perhaps too realistic a version of marriage in this emotionally bruising film. When Marianne (Ullmann) finds out that Johan (Josephson) has been cheating on her and has decided to leave her, the safe, secure world she has built around her crumbles. She plays Marianne as a wife blind to her own husband's unhappiness and embarrassed that she didn't see it coming, and her's is a convincing portrait of a woman whose partner has decided long before her that what they have isn't working.

    Josephson makes Johan into a contemptible ass, but he still manages to earn our sympathy. It's easy to dislike Johan but difficult to hate him, so we're in many respects thrust into the same emotional straight jacket as Marianne.

    The saddest thing about "Scenes from a Marriage" is how much affection and love there actually is between these two people, and how it's going to waste. When they get angry, they lash out to hurt one another with words and even with fists at one point. There are tears, laughs, reveries. It's obvious that there wouldn't be the need for all this if there wasn't so much ingrained affection between them, and it's tragic to see them become each other's enemy rather than each other's ally.

    For a very good if not quite as brilliant sequel to this film, see "Saraband," which has Marianne visiting Johan for the first time in many years after each has established a life of his/her own without the other. It brings a peaceful sense of closure and in many ways stitches up the raw wound left by the first film.

    Grade: A
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    • Feb 20, 2006

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    • Release date
      • April 11, 1973 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
      • Ingmar Bergman Foundation
      • Swedish
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    • Filming locations
      • Fårö, Gotlands län, Sweden
    • Production company
      • Cinematograph AB
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    • 4 hours 43 minutes
      • Mono

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