Ansikte mot Ansikte (1976)
- Starring:
- Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ingmar Bergman
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
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Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an affair with married doctor Tomas Jacobi (Erland Josephson). This only serves to spark an attack of hysteria for Jenny. Again visited by hallucinations of the old woman, she attempts suicide. While hovering between life and death, she imagines she sees all the people who've been influential in her life, and rails against them for causing her neuroses. Only while recovering does she learn who the spectral old woman is and why she is undergoing so harrowing an emotional experience. Like his later Scenes From a Marriage, Bergman's Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte) originated as a multipart TV series, which was then pared down into a two-hour-plus feature film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Liv Ullmann - Dr. Jenny Isaksson
- Gunnar Björnstrand - Grandpa
- Sven Lindberg - Dr. Erik Isaksson
- Ulf Johansson - Dr. Helmuth Wankel
- Gösta Ekman, Jr. - Mikael Stromberg
- Birger Malmsten - Rapist
- Goesta Pruezelius - Jenny's father
- Göran Stangertz - Second Rapist
- Helene Friberg - Anna
- Erland Josephson - Dr. Tomas Jacobi
- Kari Sylwan - Maria
- Tore Segeicke - The Lady
- Kristina Adolphson - Veronica
- Marianne Aminoff - Jenny's mother
- Aino Taube - Grandmother
- Lena Olin - Shop assistant
- Sif Ruud - Elisabeth Wankel
- Director(s):
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer(s):
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer(s):
- Lars-Owe Carlberg, Ingmar Bergman
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Adult Situations, Not For Children)
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- 1976 - Ansikte mot Ansikte - Golden Globe - Best Foreign Film
- 1976 - Ansikte mot Ansikte - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Foreign Film
- 1976 - Ansikte mot Ansikte - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Actress
- 1976 - Ansikte mot Ansikte - Los Angeles Film Critics Association - Best Foreign Film
- 1976 - Ansikte mot Ansikte - National Board of Review - Best Actress
- 1976 - Ansikte mot Ansikte - New York Film Critics Circle - Best Actress
