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Scenes from a Marriage review by A customer from London

A Look at Marriage Without the Romance 8 October 2004
... Liv Ullmann displays in this film is remarkable, but she is not alone. Co-star Erland Josephson is also outstanding. And they had better be since they command the screen for m... Read customer review

Saraband review by from York, England

First class production 9 March 2006
...ntinuity, one should follow the order of the two films. Both Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson (along with the rest of the cast) delivered a superb performance. At no point ... Read customer review

Erland Josephson - filmography

Saraband on DVD (2003)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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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...

60% from 1,250 member

Faithless (2001)
Starring: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson
Director: Liv Ullmann
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A memoir of a long-ago love affair, semi-autobiographically written by Ingmar Bergman.

61% from 423 members
Currently unavailable

Ulysses' Gaze on DVD (1995)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
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A contemporary filmmaker, called simply A, returns to his native Greece for a screening of one of his films that is controversial there. He talks to someone who in his youth had been an assistant to Yannakis Manakis, who was then himself an old man exiled in Greece. This person tells A that, just ..read more »

66% from 57 members

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)
Starring: Brian Cox, Erland Josephson, Andrei Tarkovsky
Director: Michal Leszczylowski
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During the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's last film Offret, cameraman Arne Carlsson taped around 50 hours of behind the scenes footage. Editor Michal Leszczylowski took the material and added scenes of previous interviews and interesting statements from the script of Offret and from Tarkovsky's ..read more »

76% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

The Unbearable Lightness Of Being on DVD (1987)
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lena Olin, Juliette Binoche
Director: Philip Kaufman
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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING is a sensual and sensitive adaptation of Milan Kundera's tragicomic existentialist novel that follows the story of Thomas (Daniel Day Lewis), a womanising Czech doctor in 1968 Prague, prior to the Soviet invasion, whose sexual appetite is never fully satisfied. ..read more »

64% from 4,238 members

The Sacrifice on DVD (1986)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valerie Mairesse
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film. In the hours before a nuclear holocaust, a retired actor promises God that he will gladly sacrifice all he has if the disaster can be averted. By the following morning normality is restored ...now he must keep his vow... Swedish dialogue with subtitles.

64% from 2,414 members

After The Rehearsal on DVD (1984)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She talks of her hatred for her mother, now ..read more »

63% from 260 members

Nostalgia on DVD (1983)
Starring: Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky recasts his lifelong cinematic motif of humanity's quest for faith in the waterlogged and mist-ensconced countryside of Italy for his philosophical masterpiece NOSTALGIA. Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) is a misanthropic Russian scholar researching the life of an exiled ..read more »

67% from 1,314 member

Montenegro (1981)
Starring: Susan Anspach, Erland Josephson, Marianna Jacobi
Director: Dusan Makavejev
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From eccentric Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev (SWEET MOVIE) comes this edgy comedy about a bored woman's liberation through sex. Unhappy American spouse Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She lives with her remote husband, Martin -- the erotic equivalent of ..read more »

59% from 13 members
Currently unavailable

Scenes from a Marriage on DVD (1973)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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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 »

73% from 2,005 members

Cries and Whispers on DVD (1972)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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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 »

69% from 2,434 members

So Close to Life (1958)
Starring: Eva Dahlbeck, Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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Brink of Life (original Swedish title: Nara Livet) can be described as an Ingmar Bergman potboiler-keeping in mind that a potboiler from Bergman is better than a major production from almost anyone else. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin and Bibi Andersson portray three mothers in a maternity ward. In ..read more »

46% from 3 members
Due for release on 28th May 2012

To Joy on DVD (1949)
Starring: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Maud Hyttenberg
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
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Directed by Ingmar Bergman at the age of 30, TO JOY is a classic early work of his--exploring the themes of relationships and the role of the artist. It tells the story of Marta and Stig (Maj-Britt Nilsson and Stig Olin) who perform in the same orchestra. Their conductor is played by Victor ..read more »

64% from 411 members

The Theo Angelopoulos Collection - Vol.3 (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Thanassis Vengos, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Theo Angelopoulos
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A selection of films directed my Theo Angelopoulos. Includes 'THE SUSPENDED STEP OF THE STORK', 'ULYSSES' GAZE', 'ETERNITY AND A DAY', 'THE WEEPING MEADOW' and 'THE DUST OF TIME'

65% from 8 members

Erland Josephson facts

5 most recent films

Saraband - 3.0 stars
Faithless - 3.0 stars
Ulysses' Gaze - 3.5 stars
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - 4.0 stars
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Scenes from a Marriage - 3.5 stars
Cries and Whispers - 3.5 stars
Nostalgia - 3.5 stars
Ulysses' Gaze - 3.5 stars
To Joy - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

So Close to Life - 2.5 stars
Montenegro - 3.0 stars
The Theo Angelopoulos Collection - Vol.3 - 3.5 stars
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - 4.0 stars
Saraband - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Liv Ullmann - 6 times - show films
Ingrid Thulin - 5 times - show films
Bibi Andersson - 3 times - show films
Lena Olin - 3 times - show films
Harriet Andersson - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ingmar Bergman - 9 times - show films
Ingmar Bergman - 9 times - show films
Andrei Tarkovsky - 4 times - show films
Theo Angelopoulos - 2 times - show films
Dusan Makavejev - 1 times - show films