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7.9/10   3,044 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Ingmar Bergman (writer)
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Release Date:
23 December 1968 (USA) more
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Plot:
Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 8 wins more
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PASSING ON IGNORANCE more (42 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)

Liv Ullmann ... Eva Rosenberg

Max von Sydow ... Jan Rosenberg
Sigge Fürst ... Filip
Gunnar Björnstrand ... Col. Jacobi
Birgitta Valberg ... Mrs. Jacobi
Hans Alfredson ... Lobelius
Ingvar Kjellson ... Oswald
Frank Sundström ... Chief interrogator
Ulf Johansson ... The doctor
Vilgot Sjöman ... The interviewer
Bengt Eklund ... Guard
Gösta Prüzelius ... The vicar
Willy Peters ... Elder officer
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs ... Woman in the boat
Agda Helin ... Merchant's wife
Ellika Mann ... Prison guard
Rune Lindström ... Fat man
Axel Düberg ... Pilot
Lars Amble ... Officer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Per Berglund ... Soldier
Jan Bergman ... Jacobi's driver
Karl-Arne Bergman
Lilian Carlsson
Gregor Dahlman
Nils Fogeby
Karl-Axel Forssberg ... The secretary
Åke Jörnfalk ... Man sentenced to death
Eivor Kullberg
Monica Lindberg
Stig Lindberg ... Assistant doctor
Frej Lindqvist ... Bent man
Raymond Lundberg ... Jacobi's son
Börje Lundh
Brita Öberg ... Woman
Georg Skarstedt ... Man in the boat
Björn Thambert ... Johan
Nils Whiten ... Older man
Brian Wikström
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Directed by
Ingmar Bergman 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Ingmar Bergman  writer

Produced by
Lars-Owe Carlberg .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Sven Nykvist 
 
Film Editing by
Ulla Ryghe 
 
Production Design by
P.A. Lundgren 
 
Art Direction by
Lennart Blomkvist 
 
Costume Design by
Mago 
 
Special Effects by
Evald Andersson .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Einar Carlsson .... grip
Gerhard Carlsson .... electrician
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Shame (USA)
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Runtime:
103 min
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Certification:
Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (video rating) (2004) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:R
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Eva is not wearing any socks when Jacobi arrives but several times during his visit she can be seen wearing a couple of black socks and no socks at all again. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in En passion (1969) more

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26 out of 35 people found the following review useful.
PASSING ON IGNORANCE, 7 December 2002
9/10
Author: Norwegianheretic from Los Angeles, California

When Liv Ullman's character says, "I feel like I'm in someone else's dream and they're going to be ashamed when they wake up," she is referring not only to being an unwilling player in society's war games, she is referring to being an ignorant participant in life itself. At the film's end, when she says that she had a dream that she had a child and she was trying to take care of it, but she forgot something else, the implication is that she has forgotten what she has learned in the war she's just survived, that like her own mother before her, she will be unable to pass on any vital lessons to her own child. And, therefore, the cycle of the shame of ignorance will continue...ad infinitum...

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