Cries and whispers [Viskningar och rop] / [videorecording] = Viskningar och rop a film by Ingmar Bergman. - [U.S.] : Criterion Collection/Janus Films, c2001. - 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. - Criterion collection ; 101 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 101. .

Originally released as a motion picture in 1972 by Cinematograph AB. Special feature: Reflections on life, death and love, an interview with Ingmar Bergman by Erland Josephson.

Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Siv Lundgren ; music, Chopin and Bach. Director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Siv Lundgren ; music, Chopin and Bach.

Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan.

A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as horror.

MPAA rating: R.


DVD, region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital.


Swedish with optional English subtitles and optional English-dubbed soundtrack.

New York Film Critics Award: Best picture, Director, Screenplay and Actress (Liv Ullmann); Academy Award: Best cinematography; National Board of Review: Best director, Best foreign film; National Society of Film Critics: Best screenplay, Best cinematography.

0780024036 : $29.95 9780780024038

037429156322

CRI070 Criterion Collection

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Sisters--Drama.
Cancer--Drama.
Spirituality--Drama.


Feature films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, Swedish.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

CM DVD 00712

791.43/72