After the Rehearsal
After the Rehearsal | |
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Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
Written by | Ingmar Bergman |
Produced by | Jörn Donner |
Starring | Erland Josephson Ingrid Thulin Lena Olin Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss Bertil Guve |
Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
Release dates | April 9, 1984 |
Running time | 70 min |
Language | Swedish |
After the Rehearsal (Swedish: Efter repetitionen) is a made-for-TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. The script contains numerous quotes from Strindberg's Drömspel. The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Plot summary
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother (now dead), an alcoholic actress who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.
Cast
- Erland Josephson (Henrik Vogler (older))
- Ingrid Thulin (Rakel Egerman)
- Lena Olin (Anna Egerman (older))
- Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss (Anna Egerman (younger))
- Bertil Guve (Henrik Vogler (younger))
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: After the Rehearsal". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-25.