Höstsonaten /

After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had place...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Höstsonaten (Motion picture)
Other Authors:	Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007 (Screenwriter), Bergman, Ingrid, 1915-1982 (Actor), Ullmann, Liv (Actor), Nyman, Lena (Actor), Björk, Halvar, 1928-2000 (Actor), Josephson, Erland, 1923-2012 (Actor), Björnstrand, Gunnar, 1909-1986 (Actor), Aminoff, Marianne (Actor), Bang-Hansen, Arne, 1911-1990 (Actor), Løkkeberg, Georg, 1909-1986 (Actor), Pollak, Mimi, 1903-1999 (Actor), Ullmann, Linn, 1966- (Actor), Nykvist, Sven (director of photography.), Pehrsson, Inger (Costume designer), Ingemarsson, Sylvia (Film editor), Cowie, Peter (Commentator), Russell, John Taylor (interviewer (expression))
Format:	Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:	Swedish English
Language Notes:	In Swedish, with optional dubbed English sound track; optional English subtitles.
Edition:	Blu-ray special edition.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 60.
Subjects:	Mothers and daughters > Drama. Dysfunctional families > Drama. Pianists > Sweden > Drama. Foreign films. Dysfunctional families. Mothers and daughters. Pianists. Sweden. Feature films. Fiction films. Drama.

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Summary:	After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her grown daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each other.
Item Description:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1978. Special features: New 2K digital film restoration; Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman (from 2003); Commentary (featuring film critic and Bergman expert Peter Cowie); The making of Autumn Sonata (a three-and-a-half-hour on set documentary); Liv Ullmann (New interview with the actress); Ingrid Bergman at the NFT (forty-minute conversation between actor Ingrid Bergman and critic John Taylor Russell from 1981, Bergman discusses her career and her experiences working with director Ingmar Bergman); Trailer; New English subtitle translation. Booklet features an essay by critic Farran Smith Nehme.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.).
Format:	Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits:	Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; production designer, Anna Asp ; costume design, Inger Pehrsson ; editor, Sylvia Ingmarsdotter.
ISBN:	9781604657760 1604657766