Media gallery for
Cries and Whispers

Maria (Liv Ullmann).

Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, and Harriet Andersson during filming.

Bergman, Liv Ullmann, and Erland Josephson during filming.

Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, and Sven Nykvist invested their fees to finance the film.

Bergman and Ullmann’s daugther Linn had a small part in the film.

Bergman and Harriet Andersson (Agnes) during filming.

The whole film crew after shooting was finished.

Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin during filming.

'The first image kept coming back, over and over: the room draped all in red with women clad in white.'

A few years later, Henning Moritzen (Joakim) played Alceste in Bergman’s production of The Misanthrope at the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

By the time shooting got under way Bergman and Sven Nykvist ’had tested everything that could possibly be tested; not only the makeup, the hair, the costumes, but every object, wall covering, the upholstery, every inch of carpeting.’

Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson and Anders Ek during filming.

Agnes (Harriet Andersson).

Agnes (Harriet Andersson).

Agnes (Harriet Andersson) and Anna (Kari Sylwan).

Maria (Liv Ullmann) and Isak (Anders Ek).

Maria (Liv Ullmann) and David (Erland Josephson).

Agnes (Harriet Andersson) and Anna (Kari Sylwan).

Maria (Liv Ullmann) and David (Erland Josephson).

When the film crew came across the manor house Taxinge-Näsby, Bergman gave up the plans to construct his interiors in the studios at Filmhuset.

Maria (Liv Ullmann), Karin (Ingrid Thulin), Agnes (Harriet Andersson), and Anna (Kari Sylwan).

The four leads nicknamed themselves ’the queens of Taxinge’.

’Ingmar was so thin that he could sometimes manage to squeeze in between the legs of the camera and sit on the floor right under the camera lens. Then he was happy.’

The handwritten script for Cries and Whispers begins with a cheerful preface: ’Dear good friends! We will make a film together.’

Workbook no 27 includes script drafts for both Cries and Whispers and Scenes from a Marriage. Dated May 11th, 1971 - April 20th, 1972.

Bergman during filming of Cries and Whispers.

One of Sven Nykvist’s many test maps that are preserved in the Ingmar Bergman Archives.

Kari Sylwan (Anna) was a dancer and had previously appeared in two of Bergman's theatre productions, A Dream Play and Show.

Page from Bergman’s shooting script.

Page from Bergman’s shooting script.

Page from Workbook no 26.

Swedish film poster.