Saraband

Saraband is a 2003 Swedish telemovie by film director Ingmar Bergman and his last theatrically released work. The film is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back to the screen the characters of Johan and Marianne, played by Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann respectively. In July 2005 Saraband was released theatrically in the United States with subtitles in English. In Saraband, Marianne travels into the country to the ho... more

Saraband is a 2003 Swedish telemovie by film director Ingmar Bergman and his last theatrically released work. The film is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), bringing back to the screen the characters of Johan and Marianne, played by Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann respectively. In July 2005 Saraband was released theatrically in the United States with subtitles in English. In Saraband, Marianne travels into the country to the home of her ex-husband, and father of her daughters Martha and Sara, Johan. Johan is undergoing a family crisis with his insolvent and needy son, Henrik, and granddaughter, Karin. Karin 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... less