Sweden - 1972 - Color - 91' - Swedish with English subtitles With Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Anders Ek, Inga Gill, Erland Josephson
In an isolated rural manor house, Agnes is laying on her deathbed waiting for her final hour. Her two younger sisters Maria and Karin are by her side. But as the personal repressed childhood feelings between the two siblings resurface, Agnes would only find comfort in Anna, her faithful servant.
Best Cinematography, 1974 Academy Awards
Technical Grand Prize, 1973 Cannes Film Festival
“Ingmar Bergman’s magnificent, moving and very mysterious new film, Cries and Whispers (..) reduces almost everything else you’re likely to see to the size of a small cinder.”
Vincent Canby, The New York Times