Scenes from a Marriage (TV Mini Series 1973)

Awards
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Liv Ullmann

Marianne

Erland Josephson

Johan

Bibi Andersson

Katarina

Gunnel Lindblom

Eva

Jan Malmsjö

Peter

Wenche Foss

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Anita Wall

Fru Palm, journalist

Bertil Norström

Arne

Rossana Mariano

Eva, 12 år

Lena Bergman

Karin, syster till Eva

Ingmar Bergman

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Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

Fru Jacobi

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Trivia
According to an interview with Ingmar Bergman, after the TV mini-series was broadcast in Sweden, the divorce rate in Sweden increased substantially and the number of married couples who seek marriage counseling also doubled.

Quotes
Johan: We're emotional illiterates. We've been taught about anatomy and farming methods in Africa. We've learned mathematical formulas by heart. But we haven't been taught a thing about our souls. We're tremendously ignorant about what makes people tick.

Crazy credits
The end credits aren't shown on-screen but read by director and writer Ingmar Bergman, while "a beautiful picture of Fårö" is shown (different for each episode). Bergman himself is not credited at all.

Alternate versions
Bergman prepared a four-hour version of "Scenes from a Marriage," hoping it would be shown as a two-part film. It never appeared in the US, although the original six-hour mini-series was shown on PBS after the 168 minute cut had played theatrically.

Connections
Edited into Scenes from a Marriage (1974)

Soundtracks
Concerto for violin, strings & continuo in B flat major, Op. 10, No. 1
(uncredited)
Written by Tomaso Albinoni
A short extract is played during the very beginning and end of each episode (it's not featured in the theatrical version)

dissects the complexity of human relationships as an almost unbearable shrine to honesty

Ohmygod. Liv Ullman really deserved an Oscar for this one, as did Bergman. WOW- not many movies are this honest, this heartbreaking, this true, and this tumultuous- we see two people, in and out of a relationship over fifteen years, experiencing all the pain, loss, love, hate, anger, jealousy, denial, sadness, and so on that finding one's soul-mate brings, stretched out long-term.

Not many movies even come close to this one's brutality in its genuine awareness of people. Most modern films (and television, for that matter) cannot even come close to the psychological precision of Bergman's films. Perhaps "Scenes from a Marriage" is his best work- more accessible than "Wild Strawberries", more compelling than "Persona." This is definitely a film to seek out.