In the Presence of a Clown (1997)

Original title

Larmar och gör sig till

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Genre

drama film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 59m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A professor named Carl is placed in a mental ward after an attempted murder. There he befriends another patient named Osvald and they work together to create and promote a film.

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What happens

In the Presence of a Clown (Swedish: Larmar och gör sig till) is a television film by Ingmar Bergman, recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of a professor named Carl, who has been found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to treatment in a mental ward. In the hospital he befriends a man named Osvald, and they attempt to make and promote a film. The film was produced for Sveriges Television from Bergman's 1994 play of the same title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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