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Free Thinking: Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

Northern Lights Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

15/12/2015

Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries

Matthew Sweet is joined by Colm Toibin and others to discuss Bergman's Wild Strawberries.

Writer Colm Toibin, Swedish Cultural Attache Ellen Wettmark and film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh join Matthew Sweet to explore Ingmar Berman's 1957 film Wild Strawberries.

Matthew Sweet discusses Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries with the writer Colm Toibin, the film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and the Swedish Cultural Attaché Ellen Wettmark. 

Released in 1957 and inspired by Bergman's own memories of childhood holidays in a summerhouse in the north of Sweden, Wild Strawberries tells the story of elderly professor Isak Borg, who travels from his home in Stockholm to receive an honorary doctorate. On the way, he's visited by childhood memories. The film stars veteran actor and director Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson and Ingrid Thulin. 

With additional contributions from the film historian Kevin Brownlow and Jan Holmberg from the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, which administers Bergman's archives.

The BFI in London is running a season of Ingmar Bergman films until March 1st 2018 as part of the global celebrations of the centenary of world-renowned Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918 - 2007).

A Matter of Life and Death: the Films of Ingmar Bergman has been republished with a new introduction by Geoff Andrew of the BFI. 

Wild Strawberries is being screened on 26 Feb, Newlyn Filmhouse; 8 March, Borderlines Film Festival; 11 March, Chapter Arts Centre. 

This programme was originally recorded in December 2015. 

Producer: Laura Thomas

(Main image: Ingmar Bergman. Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images.).

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