ingmar bergman wild strawberries full movie

Thus he is able to make several stops on the way and visit the meaningful places of his past. This dream prompts Isak to choose to drive to Lund instead of taking a train, as he had been planning. The other is internal, unconscious trigger-the dream. One is, again, the real-life trigger caused by the award, the recognition of his work. Isak’s reevaluation has specific triggers. This timelessness even has a specific symbol in the film-clocks without hands. This is a journey that takes place in two different dimensions: one is conscious, fixed in time-from early morning to the evening of one day and another is unconscious, in a timeless space of dreams and memories. Professor Isak Borg is travelling from his home in Stockholm to Lund where the ceremony is to take place. So, here we have a 38-year-old director and a 78-year-old actor making a film about a 78-year-old man with a 38-year-old son, trying to make sense of life. And was constantly fighting his own demons and fears, complaining that he didn’t really want to do it, that he was old and just could not do it anymore. Sjöström was 78 during filming the same age as his character. Bergman even believed that this film came out to be more of Sjostrom’s than his. But Victor Sjöström, the legendary director and actor of Swedish silent cinema who plays Professor Borg, brings in his own personality.

Wild Strawberries reflects much of Bergman’s personal struggles. It recognizes his success in his career, but was he successful in life in general?īergman directed Wild Strawberries in 1957 when he was 39, having written the script while hospitalized and recovering from a serious illness that his doctor eventually concluded to be psychosomatic. Professor Isak Borg is about to receive an honorary award for 50 years of medical practice. Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries follows one day of an elderly man trying to reevaluate his life.

Ingmar bergman wild strawberries full movie