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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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