Wild Strawberries (1957)

Essential Viewing

Sweden

Feature Film
Original Title: Smultronstället
Writer/Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer: Gunnar Fischer
Composer: Erik Nordgren
Cast: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Folke Sundquist, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Naima Wifstrand, Gunnel Broström, Gertrud Fridh, Sif Ruud

Bergman’s tender, episodic masterpiece, following an old man on a literal and metaphorical journey through time, space, and memory, is a beautifully acted, shot, and scored film that manages to be insightful, funny, disturbing, and above all else very moving. Iain.Stott