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49-405: The story is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back the characters of Johan and Marianne. It is a co-production of Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Denmark, and Austria. The film is structured around ten acts with a prologue and epilogue . It opens with the camera on Marianne standing by a table covered with photographs. It is a well-lit room, and she addresses

98-655: A film adaptation of Miss Julie . The film, released in September 2014, stars Jessica Chastain , Colin Farrell , and Samantha Morton . It was widely praised by the Norwegian press. In 2018, Ullmann narrated Wars Don't End , a documentary about the Lebensborn war children. In March 2022 it was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that Ullmann would receive

147-415: A Mall , a dark comedy about a deteriorating marriage. Allen's similarly realist 1992 film Husbands and Wives is also influenced by Scenes from a Marriage . Some critics compared Allen's Annie Hall (1977) to Scenes from a Marriage . In an April 2011 New York Times Opinionator article titled "Too Much Relationship Vérité", Virginia Heffernan compares An American Family to Scenes from

196-458: A Marriage was the standard by which their Before Midnight must be judged. Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev initially conceived Loveless (2017) as a remake of Scenes from a Marriage , with critics also comparing Zvyagintsev's finished product to Bergman's miniseries. Noah Baumbach 's Marriage Story (2019) also contains references to Scenes from a Marriage . Liv Ullmann Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938)

245-662: A Marriage : It's now the future. And the 12-hour PBS time capsule, which will make a rare reappearance next week at the Paley Center in Manhattan and on some public-TV affiliates beginning Saturday, looks more like performance art than social science. Hammy stunts for the camera alternate with Bergman-esque staging. ("Scenes from a Marriage", Bergman’s fictional TV series, also appeared in 1973, in Sweden.) In June 2013, actor Ethan Hawke and director Richard Linklater said Scenes from

294-652: A director was Sofie (1992); her friend and former co-actor, Erland Josephson, starred on it. She later directed the Bergman-composed movie Faithless (2000). Faithless garnered nominations for both the Palme d'Or and Best Actress category at the Cannes Film Festival . In 2003, Ullmann reprised her role for Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband (2003), Bergman's final telemovie. Her previous screen role had been in

343-400: A documentary, saying she "felt very connected to the role." She said she was becoming more involved in the feminist movement while making the miniseries. Due to Ullmann and Erland Josephson 's comfort with their parts, the crew saved time by not having rehearsals. Scenes From a Marriage was broadcast as a miniseries in Sweden by SVT2 beginning on 11 April 1973. Polls indicated most of

392-606: A film based on A Doll's House . According to her statement, the Norwegian Film Fund was preventing her and writer Ketil Bjørnstad from pursuing the project. Australian actress Cate Blanchett and British actress Kate Winslet had been cast intended in the main roles of the movie. She later directed Blanchett in the play A Streetcar Named Desire , by Tennessee Williams , at the Sydney Theatre Company in Sydney, which

441-545: A minor entry in Ingmar Bergman's filmography, it's still an accomplished piece of work from one of cinema's greatest masters." Film Critic Roger Ebert called the film "powerfully, painfully honest" and gave the film four stars out of four. The film ranked 9th on Cahiers du Cinéma 's Top 10 Films of the Year List in 2004. Scenes from a Marriage Scenes from a Marriage ( Swedish : Scener ur ett äktenskap )

490-463: A phone call stating that Henrik has been found in the hospital having attempted suicide with pills and by cutting his wrists and throat. In the next scene a pained Johan suffering from a sort of anxiety attack seeks out Marianne and eventually disrobes along with her and joins her in bed. Next, Marianne is holding a still of the couple in bed and explaining what happened after that episode. She explains how she and Johan had kept in contact until one day she

539-567: A position as concertmaster, he attempts to convince Karin into performing a concert of Bach's Cello Suites with him. She finally confronts him about his control over her and tells him of her decision to take an opportunity to study with her friend Emma in Hamburg under Claudio Abbado . The final request by Henrik is that Karin play the sarabande from Bach's 5th Cello Suite, which she already knows. We encounter Marianne and Johan some time later, after Karin has already left for Hamburg. Marianne receives

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588-612: A proposal from Ivan Chablov, head conductor in the St. Petersburg orchestra and an old friend of Johan, that Karin join him at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki . While considering this offer Karin also finds an old letter from her departed mother Anna written to Henrik a week before her death. In the letter, Anna asks Henrik to relieve Karin of the unhealthy control he holds over her as her cello teacher. When Henrik encounters Karin again upon his return from Uppsala, where he no longer holds

637-411: A second husband herself, and then when her second husband died (by flying a glider off somewhere and disappearing), she reflects that it would be nice to see her first husband again. Marianne travels into the country to the home of her ex-husband Johan, the father of her daughters Martha and Sara. Johan is undergoing a family crisis with his insolvent and needy son, Henrik, and granddaughter, Karin. Karin

686-568: A stage actress in Norway during the mid-1950s. She continued to act in theatre for most of her career and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen 's play A Doll's House . She became better known once she started to work with Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman . She later acted, with acclaim, in 10 of his movies, including Persona (1966), The Passion of Anna (1969), Cries and Whispers (1972), and Autumn Sonata (1978), in

735-514: Is 19, and Henrik asks Johan for an advance on his inheritance so that Henrik can buy Karin an old Fagnola cello, to make a better impression at the audition for the European music conservatory. The elderly Johan decides to consider the offer and to contact the cello dealer himself. While Henrik is away tending to the orchestra he conducts in Uppsala , Johan has a private meeting with Karin, informing her of

784-413: Is a 1973 Swedish television miniseries written and directed by Ingmar Bergman . Over the course of six hour-long episodes, it explores the disintegration of the marriage between Marianne ( Liv Ullmann ), a divorce lawyer, and Johan ( Erland Josephson ), a reader in psychology. The series spans a period of 10 years. Bergman's teleplay draws on his own experiences, including his relationship with Ullmann. It

833-458: Is a Norwegian actress. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses of all time, Ullmann is known as the muse and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman . She acted in many of his films, including Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Passion of Anna (1969), and Autumn Sonata (1978). Ullmann won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama in 1972 for

882-589: The Academy Honorary Award . John Lithgow presented her with the statue at the Governors Awards saying, "For those few who claim that she never would've been called one of our greatest actors without Ingmar Bergman , I would answer, Bergman would probably never been called one of our greatest filmmakers without Liv Ullman". Ullmann was married to Norwegian psychiatrist Hans Jakob Stang from 1960 until 1965. She met Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and

931-477: The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and several other honours. The miniseries and film version influenced filmmakers such as Woody Allen and Richard Linklater . It was followed by a sequel, Saraband , in 2003, and stage adaptations. It was also adapted into an HBO miniseries in 2021. The TV miniseries' six episodes ran between 11 April and 16 May 1973. At about 50 minutes per episode,

980-780: The Canada–Norway co-produced animated short movie The Danish Poet (2006), which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 79th Academy Awards during 2007. In 2008, she was the head of the jury at the 30th Moscow International Film Festival . During 2012, she attended the International Indian Film Academy Awards in Singapore, where she was honored for her Outstanding Contributions to International Cinema and she also showed her movie on her relationship with Ingmar Bergman. In 2013, Ullmann directed

1029-624: The Norwegian air force base on Toronto Island (in Lake Ontario) during the Second World War. The family moved to New York, where four years later, her father died after a lengthy hospitalization from head injuries due to being struck by an airplane propeller, his death affecting her greatly. Her mother worked as a bookseller, while raising two daughters. They eventually moved to Norway, settling in Trondheim . Ullmann began her acting career as

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1078-736: The Swedish movie Zorn (1994). In 2004, Ullmann revealed that she had received an offer in November 2003 to play in three episodes of the American television series, Sex and the City . She was amused by the offer, and said that it was one of the few programs she regularly watched, but she turned it down. Later that year, Steven Soderbergh wrote a role in the movie Ocean's 12 especially for her, but she also turned that down. During 2006, Ullmann announced that she had been forced to end her longtime wish of making

1127-763: The best actress prize three times from the National Society of Film Critics , three times from the National Board of Review , received three awards from the New York Film Critics Circle , and a Golden Globe . During 1971, Ullmann was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the movie The Emigrants , and again during 1976 for the movie Face to Face . Ullmann made her New York City stage debut in 1975 also in A Doll's House . Appearances in Anna Christie and Ghosts followed, as well as

1176-504: The editing for the cinema, saying that the film "shows its reassembled status rather badly" and that "moments of searing insight" were provided mainly by Ullmann. The film was included in " The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made" in 2002. In 2004, essayist Phillip Lopate wrote that Scenes from a Marriage showed Bergman moving on from exploration of God's silence to the subject of men, women, love and intimacy. Lopate found

1225-427: The effect of breaking into mysterious components many things we ordinarily accept without thought, familiar and banal objects, faces, attitudes, and emotions, especially love. [...] Ullmann again establishes herself as one of the most fascinating actresses of our time." Canby also wrote that "Josephson gives an equally complex performance" but found the character less admirable. Don Druker of Chicago Reader criticized

1274-566: The film The Emigrants and has been nominated for another four. In 2000, she was nominated for the Palme d'Or for her second directorial feature film, Faithless . She has received two BAFTA Award nominations, and two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress , for The Emigrants and Ingmar Bergman's Face to Face . On March 25, 2022, Ullmann was presented with an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her "bravery and emotional transparency that has gifted audiences with deeply affecting screen portrayals". Ullmann

1323-408: The film "stunningly exemplified" the "tension" in "the emotional causes and effects of feeling incompatible desires within the modern world." The film has a 88% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes , based on 24 reviews, and an average rating of 8.6/10. It was included on BBC 's 2018 list of the 100 greatest foreign-language films. The National Board of Review named Scenes from a Marriage one of

1372-413: The film version "more harrowing and theatrical," while the miniseries "has the tendency to intersect with and form a more quotidian relationship to viewers’ lives; its characters become members of the family, and their resilience over time, regardless of the incessant crises thrown them by the script, induces a more good-humored, forgiving atmosphere." In 2007, Kristi McKim of Senses of Cinema wrote that

1421-674: The jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival , and during 2001 chaired the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. She introduced her daughter, Linn Ullmann , to the audience with the words: "Here comes the woman whom Ingmar Bergman loves the most". Her daughter was there to receive the Prize of Honour on behalf of her father; she would return to serve the jury herself during 2011. She published two autobiographies, Changing (1977) and Choices (1984). Ullmann's first film as

1470-541: The last of which her co-actress Ingrid Bergman resumed her own Swedish cinema career. She co-acted often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator Erland Josephson , with whom she made the Swedish television drama Scenes from a Marriage (1973), which was also edited to feature-movie length and distributed theatrically. Ullmann acted with Laurence Olivier in A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough . Nominated more than 40 times for awards, including various lifetime achievement awards, she won

1519-582: The less than successful musical version of I Remember Mama . This show, composed by Richard Rodgers , experienced numerous revisions during a long preview period, then closed after 108 performances. She also featured in the widely deprecated musical movie remake of Lost Horizon during 1973. In 1977, when she appeared on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre in Eugene O'Neill 's Anna Christie , The New York Times said that she "glowed with despair and hope, and

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1568-432: The marriage of his parents, Karin and Erik Bergman . As a boy, he had witnessed his parents violently wrestling, with Karin slapping Erik and Erik pushing her against a wall. Ingmar also found his mother could be manipulative. The budget for Scenes From a Marriage was approximately a third that of Bergman's previous film, Cries and Whispers . Half was covered by Swedish Television and half by foreign companies. It

1617-605: The miniseries and theatrical version on a three-disc DVD in Region 1 in 2004, complete with interviews and an essay by Phillip Lopate . In Sweden, Scenes from a Marriage received positive reviews for its dialogue and realism, with Mauritz Edstrom calling it "one of Bergman's finest human portrayals". Åke Janzon said that while the miniseries was not a masterpiece, it demonstrated psychological tension. Swedish director Maj Wechselmann criticized it on feminist grounds, saying it failed to criticize marriage roles. Bergman replied that

1666-422: The miniseries totals 282 minutes. Scenes from each episode appear in the film version, which is 168 minutes long. The episode titles appear in the film version as chapter titles. Bergman wrote the teleplay for Scenes From a Marriage over three months. He drew on his personal experiences, including his relationship with Ullmann; his unhappy, eventually dissolved marriages to Käbi Laretei and Gun Hagberg; and

1715-580: The miniseries was meant to depict "Marianne's liberation" and female "suppressed aggressions". One controversy revolved around allegations that Scenes From a Marriage led to higher divorce rates in Sweden and around Europe by teaching couples to communicate their conflicts. Swedish divorce rates allegedly doubled one year after the miniseries was broadcast in 1973. In 2013 Rachel Halliburton disputed these allegations in Time Out magazine, remarking that sexual and women's liberation were gaining prominence at

1764-721: The original miniseries, aired on Swedish television in 2003. In 2008, a theatrical adaption by Joanna Murray-Smith was performed at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry , directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Imogen Stubbs and Iain Glen . Knots Landing creator David Jacobs based the series on Scenes from a Marriage . Shashi Deshpande informally adapted it into the screenplay for Govind Nihalani 's Drishti in 1990. In 1991, Woody Allen costarred in Paul Mazursky 's Scenes from

1813-666: The rules for eligibility be revised. Bergman's 1980 television film From the Life of the Marionettes centres on a couple named Peter and Katarina, loosely based on the supporting characters of those names in Scenes from a Marriage . Bergman also wrote the first stage adaptation of Scenes from a Marriage for the Residenztheater in Munich in 1981. Saraband , a quasi-sequel set decades after

1862-499: The time and that the miniseries "as such was as much a symptom of what was happening to modern marriage as a cause". In the United States, Roger Ebert gave the theatrical version a full four stars, calling it "one of the truest, most luminous love stories ever made" and "the best film of 1974". Vincent Canby , chief critic for The New York Times , called the theatrical version "a movie of such extraordinary intimacy that it has

1911-585: The top foreign-language films of 1974 . It sparked controversy when its ineligibility for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was questioned. The supposed reason was that it aired on television before it played in cinemas, but at the time that did not necessarily render a film ineligible. In this case, it was because the TV broadcast occurred the year before its theatrical debut in 1974. The film's ineligibility prompted 24 filmmakers, including Frank Capra and Federico Fellini , to write an open letter demanding

1960-498: The two had a relationship that lasted from 1965 to 1970. Writer Linn Ullmann (b. 1966) is their daughter. In 1985, Ullman married Boston real estate developer Donald Saunders, and they remained together after their 1995 divorce. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador , and has traveled widely for the organization. She is also co-founder and honorary chair of the Women's Refugee Commission . In 2005, King Harald V of Norway made Ullmann

2009-409: The viewer. She picks one picture up after another; they are in no particular order, being just heaped all over the table. Some make her smile, or elicit a comment or a sigh. But then she picks up a photograph of her husband, prompting her to reminisce about how they had been more or less happy, and how they'd broken up. She goes on to recall how his second marriage failed, while she was already married to

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2058-535: The viewers were women. A 169-minute theatrical version was screened in Sweden on 28 October 1974. In the United States, a 167-minute version of the miniseries was released in cinemas, with the 16 mm film modified to 35 mm . It opened in New York City on 21 September 1974. The full miniseries was later aired in the U.S. by PBS in March and April 1977, and numerous times in 1979. The Criterion Collection released

2107-402: The violence. The role subsequently went to Angie Dickinson . In 1982, Ingmar Bergman wanted Ullmann to play Emelie Ekdahl in his last feature film, Fanny and Alexander , and wrote the role with this in mind. She declined it, feeling the role was too sad. She later stated in interviews that turning it down was one of the few things she really regretted. During 1984, she was chairperson of

2156-619: Was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Norwegian parents, Erik Viggo Ullmann (1907–1945), an aircraft engineer who was working in Tokyo at the time, and Janna Erbe ( née Lund; 1910–1996). Her grandfather was sent to the Dachau concentration camp during World War II for helping Jews escape from the town where he lived in Norway ; he died in this camp. When she was two years old, the family moved to Toronto , Ontario , Canada , where her father worked at

2205-466: Was everything one could have wished her to have been" in a performance "not to be missed and never to be forgotten", with her "grace and authority" that was "perhaps more than Garbo...born for Anna Christie:--Or more properly, Anna Christie was born for her." In 1980, Brian De Palma , who directed Carrie , wanted Liv Ullmann to play the role of Kate Miller in the erotic crime thriller Dressed to Kill and offered it to her, but she declined because of

2254-506: Was filmed in Stockholm and Fårö between July and October 1972. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist emphasized close-ups and employed small indoor film sets. Nykvist later regretted not using more tracking shots when he learned the miniseries would have a theatrical release. The filming schedule was one week per episode. Ullmann compared performing in Scenes From a Marriage to appearing in

2303-483: Was no longer able to reach him. She thinks again of the departed Anna and recollects a visit to her ill daughter Martha who is in a sanatorium . She explains the contact she shared with her daughter and how she had never really been able to touch her before this moment. On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 91% based on 85 reviews, with an average score of 7.85. The website's critical consensus reads, "If Saraband appears to be

2352-676: Was performed September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where it won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Non-resident Production as well as actress and supporting performer for 2009. The play was also performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn , New York. Ullmann narrated

2401-491: Was shot on a small budget in Stockholm and Fårö in 1972. After initially airing on Swedish TV in six parts, the miniseries was condensed into a theatrical version and received positive reviews in Sweden and internationally. Scenes from a Marriage was also the subject of controversy for its perceived influence on rising divorce rates in Europe. The film was ineligible for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , but won

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