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  • The Serpent's Egg
  • The Serpent's Egg review by A customer from London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Is It Really The Master's Mistake? 17 September 2004
    ...l numbers in Bergman's film could've came from Fosse's. I was very impressed by Liv Ullmann's singing and dancing in the beginning of the film - she can do anything. In...   Read customer review
  • Autumn Sonata
  • Autumn Sonata review by from Cardiff, Wales
    Rated - 4.0 stars Powerful drama 19 April 2004
    ...n and contains some highly passionate performances from both Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann. Essentially the film centres around a fragile mother-daughter relationship and...   Read customer review
  • Persona
  • Persona review by from Waltham Forest
    Rated - 5.0 stars A must see film! 21 December 2003
    ...st sensibility. Bergman directs two very brilliant actresses Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in a very complex and thought provoking narrative. The opening montage sequence...   Read customer review

Liv Ullmann - filmography


  • Saraband on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  Erland Josephson,  Borje Ahlstedt
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Reuniting the cast of "Scenes from a Marriage" (1973), the film details the relationship between Marianne and her ex-husband JOhan, whom she visits after 30 years. Before long she finds herself embroiled in a family feud stemmed by the hatred a son has for his father...
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,250 member
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  • Fate Did Not Let Me Go (2003)
    Starring: Martin Sheen,  Liv Ullmann
    Director: Jakov Sedlar,  Dominik Sedlar
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    On August 24, 1942, a loving mother writes a farewell letter to her son just days before she dies in the Thereseinstadt concentration camp during the Holocaust. Lost for nearly 50 years, the letter mysteriously reaches her son in 1985 when he is 79 years old. The impact of the letter - and its ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 58 members
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  • Sofie (1992)
    Starring: Karen-Lise Mynster,  Ghita Nørby
    Director: Liv Ullmann
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents. An artist, Hans Hojby, meets Sofie and is entranced, asking to paint her parents and also sketching her. She responds, but he's not Jewish, and the family reacts ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 9 members
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  • Mindwalk (1990)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  Sam Waterston,  John Heard
    Director: Bernt Amadeus Capra
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A fictionalized depiction of the ecological and holistic teachings of the philosopher Fritjof Capra filmed by his brother Bernt, Mindwalk consists almost entirely of the verbal interplay between its three archetypal characters, physicist Sonia (Liv Ullmann), conservative politician Jack (Sam ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Dangerous Moves (1984)
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Alexandre Arbatt,  Liv Ullmann
    Director: Richard Dembo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 8 members
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  • Richard's Things on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  Amanda Redman,  Tim Pigott-Smith
    Director: David Greene
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on the novel by Frederick Raphael Starring: Liv Ullmann, Amanda Redman, Tim Piggot-Smith Kate Morris (Ullmann) following 20 happy years of marriage is confronted with the news of her husband's death whilst away on a business trip. The hotel register reveals that he's been travelling with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 29 members
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  • Autumn Sonata on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Liv Ullmann,  Halvar Bjork
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,441 member
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  • The Serpent's Egg on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  David Carradine,  Gert Frobe
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This unusual political drama by Ingmar Bergman was filmed at Bavaria Film Studios in Munich during the director's exile from Sweden after encountering problems with tax officials back home. THE SERPENT'S EGG, a big-budget German-American coproduction, was Bergman's second work in English after THE ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 382 members
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  • Scenes from a Marriage on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  Erland Josephson,  Bibi Andersson
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a close-up examination of a relationship as it slowly falls apart, and investigates the toll it takes on both parties. Johan and Marianne (Erland ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 2,005 members
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  • Cries and Whispers on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Ingrid Thulin,  Kari Sylwan,  Harriet Andersson
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,434 members
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  • The Emigrants (1971)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Liv Ullmann,  Eddie Axberg
    Director: Jan Troell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. However, the small size of their land, the infertile soil, and some bad harvests makes it tough. One of their ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 8 members
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  • Passion Of Anna on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  Max von Sydow,  Bibi Andersson
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Shot in striking, diffused colour by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist, THE PASSION OF ANNA is one of several Ingmar Bergman films of the 1960s dealing with a limited number of characters in an isolated setting--filming took place on the remote island of Faro, where Bergman was living at the time-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 699 members
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  • Hour Of The Wolf on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Max von Sydow,  Liv Ullmann
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his past, and Liv Ullmann as his loving wife Alma, who eventually experiences the same nightmarish delusions. A local aristocrat (Erland Josephson) and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 951 members
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  • Shame on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Liv Ullmann,  Max von Sydow,  Gunnar Bjrnstrand
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Shame demonstrates the futility of escaping the consequences of war. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated to an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. Trained and employed as classical violinists, they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 749 members
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  • Persona on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Bibi Andersson,  Liv Ullmann,  Margaretha Krook
    Director: Ingmar Bergman,  Ingmar Bergman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 3,749 members
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Liv Ullmann facts

5 most recent films

Saraband - 3.0 stars
Fate Did Not Let Me Go - 2.5 stars
Faithless - 3.0 stars
Sofie - 2.0 stars
Mindwalk - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Autumn Sonata - 3.5 stars
Scenes from a Marriage - 3.5 stars
Persona - 3.5 stars
Shame - 3.5 stars
Cries and Whispers - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Sofie - 2.0 stars
Dangerous Moves - 2.0 stars
Richard's Things - 3.0 stars
The Emigrants - 3.0 stars
Mindwalk - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Erland Josephson - 7 times - show films
Max von Sydow - 5 times - show films
Bibi Andersson - 5 times - show films
Halvar Bjork - 2 times - show films
Charles Bronson - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ingmar Bergman - 14 times - show films
Ingmar Bergman - 14 times - show films
Terence Young - 2 times - show films
Sidney Hayers - 2 times - show films
Richard Attenborough - 2 times - show films