Cries and Whispers

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Cries and Whispers
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Directed by	Ingmar Bergman
Produced by	Lars-Owe Carlberg
Written by	Ingmar Bergman
Starring	Harriet Andersson Kari Sylwan Ingrid Thulin Liv Ullmann Erland Josephson
Music by	Johann Sebastian Bach, Frédéric Chopin
Cinematography	Sven Nykvist
Editing by	Siv Lundgren
Release date(s)	December 21, 1972 March 5, 1973
Running time	106 min
Language	Swedish
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Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop) is a 1973 Swedish film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will. The film was written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It stars Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann.

Unlike most of Bergman's films, Cries and Whispers uses saturated colour, in particular crimson. For his work on this film, Sven Nykvist won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and the film was also nominated for Best Costume Design, Best Director, and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced. Unusual for a foreign language film, it was also nominated for Best Picture, not for Best Foreign Language Film.

[edit] Cast

• Harriet Andersson — Agnes
• Kari Sylwan — Anna
• Ingrid Thulin — Karin
• Liv Ullmann — Maria (and her mother)
• Anders Ek — Isak, the priest
• Inga Gill — Story teller
• Erland Josephson — David, the doctor
• Henning Moritzen — Joakim, Maria's husband
• Georg Årlin — Fredrik, Karin's husband
• Ingrid Bergman — Spectator (as Ingrid von Rosen)
• Lena Bergman — Maria as a child
• Lars-Owe Carlberg — Spectator
• Malin Gjörup — Anna's daughter
• Greta Johansson — Undertaker
• Karin Johansson — Undertaker
• Ann-Christin Lobråten — Spectator
• Börje Lundh — Spectator
• Rossana Mariano — Agnes as a child
• Monika Priede — Karin as a child
• Linn Ullmann — Maria's daughter

[edit] External links

• Viskningar och rop at the Internet Movie Database

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