BERGMANS AND 'AUTUMN SONATA'!

Liv Ullman, Ingrid Bergman & Ingmar Bergman during 

filming the scene of 'Autumn Sonata' (1978).

Today is 103rd Birth Anniversary of great Swedish Filmmaker Ingmar - Bergman! And his classic film 'Autumn Sonata' completed over 40 years!

Bergman was a master to handle human relationships in different ways in his films. In such films his 'Autumn Sonata' (1978) focused on the mother and daughter relation. This was the special film in which Hollywood's beauty icon Ingrid Bergman acted in (her own).. Swedish cinema. She appeared as celebrated pianist mother with (Ingmar Bergman's favourite)..

Liv Ullman as her neglected - daughter in this film.

Bergman himself wrote & directed this complex drama and this was his last film made for theatrical exhibition. This was cinematographed by Sven Nykvist who took meaningful close-ups of both the actresses. And Frederic Chopin composed the effective music for it! This was also final performance of legendary Ingrid Bergman. She won 'New York Film- Critics Circle's 'Best Actress' award for it. And 'Golden Globe' awarded this as 'Best- Foreign Language Film'!

 

Liv Ullman & Ingrid Bergman in scene of 'Autumn Sonata' (1978)

This film gave inspirations to some films and prominently in our India..Rituparno Ghosh's Bengali film 'Unishe April' - (1994) was based on 'Autumn- Sonata'!..In this Aparna Sen appeared as classical dancer mother with Debashree Roy as her daughter doctor.  Plot and complexity was same in both!

 

Tribute to Bergman & classic 'Autumn Sonata'!!

- Manoj Kulkarni