The Image Makers (2000)

Original title

Bildmakarna

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Genre

drama film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film director shows early footage of his new movie to the novelist who wrote the source material. The screening takes place in 1920 at a Swedish film studio and involves the director, the author, and two other artists.

dramaticcontemplativetheatricalstagedhistoricaltalkyintimatenostalgic

What happens

The Image Makers (Swedish: Bildmakarna) is a 2000 Swedish television play directed by Ingmar Bergman and written by Per Olov Enquist. The drama is set in the year 1920 at Filmstaden where the film director Victor Sjöström is shooting the film The Phantom Carriage, an adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! Accompanied by actress Tora Teje and film photographer Julius Jaenzon, he has now invited the book's author to take a first look at some early scenes. The play was originally written for and staged by the Royal Dramatic Theatre, featuring the same cast, where it premiered on 13 February 1998, directed by Bergman. Following the success of the stage production, it was adapted for Swedish television by SVT in 2000 with Bergman as director. It appeared on a UK DVD (Tartan Video, 2008) along with The Phantom Carriage. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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