Starring: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson, Lars Passgard

Directed by: Ingmar Bergman

A schizophrenic girl (Harriet Andersson) sinking into madness, is the focal point for the emotions of three men - her husband (Max Von Sydow) a doctor, who is helpless to cure her, her father (Gunnar Bjornstrand), who is horrified to find that he he can watch her disease with complete detachment, and her brother (Lars Passgard) for whom she represents the mysterious attractiveness of the opposite sex. A crisis is reached when, after a number of hallucinations, she seduces the boy.

Bergman's film is an intense, rigorous and disturbing study of the doubts, uneasiness and creeping paranoia of contemporary life. The opening work in the director's powerful trilogy on faith, Through A Glass Darkly was the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film in 1961.

DVD EXTRAS

Star and director filmographies. Scene selection. Philip Strick film notes. Extracts from Bergman's book 'Images - My Life In Film'. The Bergman Collection trailer. Region 0.

Soundtrack Languages

 Dolby Digital: Swedish

Technical Details

Certification: 15
Duration: 91 mins
Format: DVD
Single Sided/Single Layer
Region: 2
Sound: Dolby Digital
Cat. No: TVD3346(TARTAN VIDEO) [The Bergman Collection]
Subtitles: English

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