From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

Original title

Aus dem Leben der Marionetten

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, Sweden

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

16

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 116 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A married couple in Munich drifts apart because of dissatisfaction and infidelity. The husband kills a prostitute.

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What happens

From the Life of the Marionettes (German: Aus dem Leben der Marionetten) is a 1980 television film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film was produced in West Germany with a German-language screenplay and soundtrack while Bergman was in "tax exile" from his native Sweden. It is filmed in black and white apart from two colour sequences at the beginning and end of the film. Set in Munich, the film charts the disintegration of the relationship of Katarina and Peter Egermann, based on the unhappy couple of the same names briefly featured in Bergman's 1973 miniseries Scenes from a Marriage. In a reimagining of the characters, Peter and Katarina's unhappiness and unfaithfulness culminates in Peter's murder of a prostitute. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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