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Cries and Whispers (literally "Whispers and Cries") is a 1973 Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will. The film was written and directed by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
. It stars Harriet Andersson
Harriet Andersson

Harriet Andersson is a Sweden actress, best known for being one of Ingmar Bergman's regular actresses.She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality....
, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Thulin

Ingrid Thulin was a Sweden actress....
 and Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and was the muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or and twice for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award....
.

Unlike most of Bergman's films, Cries and Whispers uses saturated colour
Saturation (color theory)

In colorimetry and color theory, colorfulness, chroma, and saturation are related but distinct concepts referring to the perceived intensity of a specific color....
, especially crimson
Crimson

Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color combined with some blue, resulting in a tiny degree of purple. It is originally the color of the dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used for slightly bluish-red colors in general that are between red and rose ....
. For his work on this film, Sven Nykvist
Sven Nykvist

Sven Vilhem Nykvist was a two-time Academy Award winning Sweden cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with film director Ingmar Bergman....
 won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....
, and the film was also nominated for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Costume Design

This Academy Awards was first given for films made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies....
, Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
, and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Awards for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing....
.






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Cries and Whispers (literally "Whispers and Cries") is a 1973 Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 film about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn between fearing she might die and hoping that she will. The film was written and directed by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Sweden director, writer and Film producer for film, stage and television. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition....
. It stars Harriet Andersson
Harriet Andersson

Harriet Andersson is a Sweden actress, best known for being one of Ingmar Bergman's regular actresses.She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality....
, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin
Ingrid Thulin

Ingrid Thulin was a Sweden actress....
 and Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and was the muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or and twice for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award....
.

Unlike most of Bergman's films, Cries and Whispers uses saturated colour
Saturation (color theory)

In colorimetry and color theory, colorfulness, chroma, and saturation are related but distinct concepts referring to the perceived intensity of a specific color....
, especially crimson
Crimson

Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color combined with some blue, resulting in a tiny degree of purple. It is originally the color of the dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used for slightly bluish-red colors in general that are between red and rose ....
. For his work on this film, Sven Nykvist
Sven Nykvist

Sven Vilhem Nykvist was a two-time Academy Award winning Sweden cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with film director Ingmar Bergman....
 won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....
, and the film was also nominated for Best Costume Design
Academy Award for Costume Design

This Academy Awards was first given for films made in 1948 when separate awards were given for black-and-white and color movies....
, Best Director
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
, and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Awards for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. Before 1940, there was an Academy Award for Best Story for writing....
. Unusually for a foreign language film, it was also nominated for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
, not for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Award, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....
.

Cast

  • Harriet Andersson
    Harriet Andersson

    Harriet Andersson is a Sweden actress, best known for being one of Ingmar Bergman's regular actresses.She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality....
      — Agnes
  • Kari Sylwan — Anna
  • Ingrid Thulin
    Ingrid Thulin

    Ingrid Thulin was a Sweden actress....
      — Karin
  • Liv Ullmann
    Liv Ullmann

    Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actor and was the muse of Swedish Academy Award winning director Ingmar Bergman. A winner of the Golden Globe, Ullmann has also been nominated for both the Palme d'Or and twice for the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award....
      — Maria (and her mother)
  • Anders Ek
    Anders Ek

    Anders Ek , was a Swedish film actor.He was born in Gothenburg, Sweden and died in Stockholm.Selected filmography* Cries and Whispers ...
      — Isak, the priest
  • Inga Gill
    Inga Gill

    Inga Gill was a Swedish film actress.She was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died there of thrombosis....
      — Story teller
  • Erland Josephson
    Erland Josephson

    Erland Josephson is a Swedish actor and author from a prominent Jewish family. He is best known to international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Theodoros Angelopoulos....
      — David, the doctor
  • Henning Moritzen
    Henning Moritzen

    Henning Moritzen is a Denmark film actor. He has appeared in over 70 films since 1950 in film.He was born in T?rb?k, Denmark....
      — Joakim, Maria's husband
  • Georg Årlin
    Georg Årlin

    Georg ?rlin was a Sweden film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1940 in film and 1988 in film.He was born in Karlskrona, Sweden and died in L?vestad, Sweden....
      — Fredrik, Karin's husband
  • Ingrid von Rosen
    Ingrid von Rosen

    File:Grave of Ingmar Bergman, may 2008.jpgIngrid von Rosen was married to Sweden film director Ingmar Bergman. Born Ingrid Karlebo in Stockholm in 1930, she was married to the Swedish count Jan-Carl von Rosen in 1953....
      — Spectator
  • Lena Bergman
    Lena Bergman

    Lena Bergman , is a Swedish social services employee. She is the daughter of Ingmar Bergman and Else Fisher and was born in Stockholm, Sweden. In her youth, she appeared as an extra in three of her father's movies....
      — Maria as a child
  • Lars-Owe Carlberg — Spectator
  • Malin Gjörup — Anna's daughter
  • Greta Johansson — Undertaker
  • Karin Johansson — Undertaker
  • Ann-Christin Lobråten — Spectator
  • Börje Lundh — Spectator
  • Rossana Mariano — Agnes as a child
  • Monika Priede — Karin as a child
  • Linn Ullmann
    Linn Ullmann

    Linn Ullmann, originally Karin Beate Ullmann, is a Norway author and journalist....
      — Maria's daughter


Soundtrack


"Suite No. 5 for solo Cello in C Minor, 4th mvt 'Sarabande'" by Johann Sebastian Bach Played by Pierre Fournier

"Mazurka in A minor, Op.17/4" by Frédéric Chopin Played by Kabi Laretei

Awards and nominations


  • Academy Awards
    46th Academy Awards

    The 46th Academy Awards were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by John Huston, Diana Ross, Burt Reynolds, David Niven....
    • Best Cinematography (Nykvist, won)
    • Best Picture (nominated)
    • Best Director (Bergman, nominated)
    • Best Original Screenplay (Bergman, nominated)
    • Best Costume Design (Marik Vos-Lundh
      Marik Vos-Lundh

      Marik Vos-Lundh was a Swedish people costume designer and production designer who won the Academy Award for Costume Design in 56th Academy Awards for Fanny & Alexander....
      , nominated)
  • BAFTA Awards
    27th British Academy Film Awards

    The 27th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1974, honored the best films of 1973 in film....
    • Best Actress (Thulin, nominated)
    • Best Cinematography (Nykvist, nominated)
  • Bodil Awards
    Bodil Awards

    The Bodil Awards are the major Denmark film awards, given annually by the Denmark's National Association of Film Critics at a ceremony in the Imperial Theater, Copenhagen in central Copenhagen....
    • Best European Film (Bergman, won)
  • Cannes Film Festival
    1973 Cannes Film Festival

    The 26th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10-25, 1973. At this festival two new non-competitive sections were added: '?tude et documents' and 'Perspectives du Cin?ma Fran?ais' ....
    • Technical Grand Prize (Bergman, won)
  • Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
    • Best Foreign Film (won)
  • David di Donatello Awards
    • Best Director - Foreign Film (Bergman, won)
    • Special David (Andersson, Sylwan, Thulin and Ullmann, won)
  • Golden Globes
    30th Golden Globe Awards

    The 30th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1972 in film films, were held on 28 January 1973....
    • Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film (nominated)
  • Guldbagge Awards
    Guldbagge Award

    The Guldbagge Award is the official Sweden film award, awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute....
    • Best Film (won)
    • Best Actress (Andersson, won)
  • Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
    • Best Director - Foreign Film (Bergman, won)
  • Jussi Awards
    • Best Foreign Director (Bergman, won)
  • Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
    Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 1973

    The 8th Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best filmmaking of 1973 in film, were given in 1974....
    • Best Director (Bergman, won)
    • Best Foreign Film (won)
  • National Board of Review
    National Board of Review Awards 1973

    The 45th National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 24, 1973....
    • Best Director (Bergman, won)
    • Best Foreign Language Film (won)
  • National Society of Film Critics Awards
    • Best Cinematography (Nykvist, won)
    • Best Screenplay (Bergman, won)
  • New York Film Critics Circle Awards
    New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1972

    The 38th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced on 3 January 1973, honored the best filmmaking of 1972 in film....
    • Best Film (won)
    • Best Director (Bergman, won)
    • Best Screenplay (Bergman, won)
    • Best Actress (Ullmann, won, also for The Emigrants)


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