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Wild Strawberries ()

Smultronstället (original title)
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After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
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Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg
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Sara / Hitchhiker
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Marianne Borg
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Dr. Evald Borg
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Agda
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Anders
Björn Bjelfvenstam ...
Viktor (as Björn Bjelvenstam)
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Mrs. Borg - Isak's Mother
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Berit Alman
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Karin Borg - Isak's wife
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Aunt Olga
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Sten Alman / The Examiner
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Henrik Åkerman
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Karin's Lover
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Uncle Aron
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Sigfrid Borg
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Sigbritt Borg
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Charlotta Borg
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Angelica Borg
Ann-Marie Wiman ...
Eva Åkerman
Eva Norée ...
Anna Borg
Lena Bergman ...
Kristina Borg
Monica Ehrling ...
Birgitta Borg
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peder Hellman ...
Sigbritt's Baby (uncredited)
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Mr. Borg - Isak's Father (uncredited)
Göran Lundquist ...
Benjamin Borg (uncredited)
Josef Norman ...
Professor Tiger (uncredited)
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Bishop (uncredited)
Vendela Rudbäck ...
Elisabeth - Mrs. Borg's Housemaid (uncredited)
Per Skogsberg ...
Hagbart Borg (uncredited)
Helge Wulff ...
The Manager (uncredited)

Directed by

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Ingmar Bergman

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Ingmar Bergman ... (written by)

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Allan Ekelund ... producer (uncredited)

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Erik Nordgren
Göte Lovén ... (uncredited)

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Gunnar Fischer

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Oscar Rosander

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Gittan Gustafsson

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Millie Ström

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Nils Nittel ... makeup artist

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Gösta Ekman ... assistant director

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Karl-Arne Bergman ... property master

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Aaby Wedin ... sound
Sven Rudestedt ... sound mixer (uncredited)
Lennart Wallin ... sound (uncredited)

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Louis Huch ... still photographer (uncredited)
Björn Thermænius ... assistant camera (uncredited)

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Sven Sjönell ... location manager

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Katinka Faragó ... script girl (as Katherina Faragó)

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Manfred R. Köhler ... german dubbing director (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they encounter almost mirror his own, including hitchhikers Sara, Viktor and Anders - who remind him of his cousin Sara who he was going to marry, himself and his irresponsible brother Sigfrid who Sara eventually married - a bickering married couple Sten and Berit Alman, and Marianne and her husband and Isak's son Evald, whose marriage is as strained as was his own. Written by Huggo

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Taglines "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." Shakespeare - The Tempest See more »
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Also Known As
  • Wild Strawberries (Israel, English title)
  • Wild Strawberries (World-wide, English title)
  • Wild Strawberries (Canada, English title)
  • Wild Strawberries (United States)
  • Wild Strawberries (United Kingdom)
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  • 91 min
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Trivia Ingmar Bergman has described in the interview how he came up with the idea while driving from Stockholm to Dalarna, stopping in Uppsala where he had been born and raised, and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was actually the idea behind Wild Strawberries (1957)" See more »
Goofs It has been included as a continuity error that Marianne says she is going to go swimming at the old house, but when she returns her hair does not appear to be wet. This is not a continuity error, because when the film was shot in the late 1950s, and for at least a decade afterwards, at least in the Nordic countries women gathered their hair up and covered it with a special swimming cap to protect their hair from becoming wet. Some women who had grown up during those times used swimming caps as late as the 1980s, because they had grown up with the custom, and a swimming cap was to them just as integral part of swimming attire as a swimming suit. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973). See more »
Soundtracks KUNGLIGA SOEDERMANLANDS REGEMENTES MARSCH See more »
Quotes Dr. Evald Borg: It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we were.
Marianne Borg: That's just an excuse.
Dr. Evald Borg: Call it what you want. I was an unwanted child in a hellish marriage.
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