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Overview

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6.9/10   855 votes
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Director:
Bille August
Writers:
Bille August (writer)
Selma Lagerlöf (novel)
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Release Date:
7 March 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
En film om trons makt och kaerlekens styrka.
Plot:
The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. While Ingmar is away during the winter... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 3 nominations more
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17th Annual Jewish Film Festival in Portland
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An outstanding epic narrated with mastery more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Maria Bonnevie ... Gertrud
Ulf Friberg ... Ingmar
Pernilla August ... Karin
Lena Endre ... Barbro
Sven-Bertil Taube ... Hellgum
Reine Brynolfsson ... Tim
Jan Mybrand ... Gabriel

Max von Sydow ... Vicar

Olympia Dukakis ... Mother (Mrs. Gordon)
Björn Granath ... Storm
Viveka Seldahl ... Stina
Sven Wollter ... Stor-Ingmar
Johan Rabaeus ... Eljas
Mona Malm ... Eva Gunnarsdotter
André Beinö ... Ingmar som barn
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality.
Runtime:
168 min
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Filming Locations:
Jämtlands län, Sweden more

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Version of Ingmarssönerna (1919) more

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An outstanding epic narrated with mastery, 1 April 2005
10/10
Author: hedgehoggie_a from Lithuania

The film is based on a novel by Selma Lagerlof and itself is indeed a magnificent epic of a Scandinavian spirit, though not that naive in its approach as one finds in, say, some famous epic movies based on Scottish history. In my eyes the film is a revelation of a fragile human story, full of obstacles and hard days, proceeded by a careful, attentive eye, and smooth in a sense that the sequence of events do not overshadow each other but rather form a nice waving flow, thus sustaining intensity not in separate scenes but rather as a whole, where each moment is masterfully organized. Also, though dealing with difficult issues, the film sees people not as a collection of scenes of despair, but as a continuous spirit, worth of admiration after all.

If you want an entertaining film in the narrow sense then I suggest this is not the right one to choose and you might be disappointed. Else, go and see it, it is rewarding in a sense of how much attention and openness you can give to it, a film its director Bille August did not manage to overtake by now, despite his expensive Hollywood attempts.

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