Cries and Whispers (1973)

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Original title	Viskningar och rop
Swedish release title	Viskningar och rop
International title	Cries and Whispers
Distribution title	Hvisken og råb (Danmark) Kuiskauksia ja huutoja (Finland) Viskningar och rop (Norge) Cris et chuchotements (Frankrike) Gritos e sussuros (Brasilien) Schreew zonder antwoord (Nederländerna) Szepty i krzyki (Polen) Lagrimas e suspiros (Portugal) Šepoty a výkřiky (Tjeckoslovakien) Suttogások, sikolyok (Ungern) Cries and Whispers (USA) Schreie und Flüstern (Västtyskland) Gritos y susurros (Spanien)
Title for Swedish Video release	Viskningar och rop

Director	Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay	Ingmar Bergman
Production Manager	Lars-Owe Carlberg
Director of Photography	Sven Nykvist
Music	Johann Sebastian Bach Frédéric Chopin
Production Designer	Marik Vos
Film Editor	Siv Lundgren
Production Mixer	Owe Svensson
Script Supervisor	Katinka Faragó
First Assistant Cameraman	Lars Karlsson
Still Photographer	Bo-Erik Gyberg
Gaffer	Gerhard Carlsson Stefan Gustafsson
Key Grip	Anders Bergkvist Ragnar Waaranperä
Color Timer	Louis Lindberg
Assistant Production Designer	Ann-Christin Lobråten
Propman	Gunilla Jakobson (as Gunilla Hagberg)
Costume Designer	Marik Vos
Dressmaker	Greta Johansson Karin Johansson
Make-up Supervisor	Cecilia Drott Britt Falkemo Börje Lundh
Boom Operator	Tommy Persson
Re-recording Mixer	Sven Fahlén Owe Svensson
Other Crew	Arne Carlsson (allt i allo) Hans Rehnberg (chaufför)
Narrator	Ingmar Bergman

Harriet Andersson	Agnes
Kari Sylwan	Anna
Ingrid Thulin	Karin
Liv Ullmann	Maria/Marias mamma
Anders Ek	Isak, präst
Inga Gill	sagoberätterska
Erland Josephson	David, läkare
Henning Moritzen	Joakim, kammarråd, Marias man
Georg Årlin	Fredrik, diplomat, Karins man
Linn Ullmann	Marias dotter
Greta Johansson	sveperska
Karin Johansson	sveperska
Rossana Mariano	Agnes som barn
Malin Gjörup	Annas dotter
Lena Bergman	Maria som barn
Ingrid Bergman (as Ingrid von Rosen)
Ann-Christin Lobråten
Börje Lundh
Lars-Owe Carlberg	åskådare vid bildvisningen
Monika Priede	Karin som barn

Production Company	Cinematograph AB
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet
	Liv Ullmann
	Ingrid Thulin
	Harriet Andersson
	Sven Nykvist
Distributor in Sweden (35 mm)	AB Svensk Filmindustri
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1994
Distributor in Sweden (DCP)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2017
	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	2017
Distributor in Sweden (Video)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1997
Distributor in Sweden (buy video)	Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet	1997
Laboratory	FilmTeknik AB

Agnes, a dying woman is attended to in her rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria, and her maid Anna.

Censorship number	111192
Date	1972-08-05
Classification	Allowed from age 15
Original length	2500 meters

Aspect ratio	2.35:1
Sound type	Sound
Sound system	Optical mono
Colour type	Colour
Colour system	Eastman Color
Carrier type	35 mm
Frames per second	24
Length in metres	2500 meter
Length in minutes	92 min
Reels	5 reels
Dialogue	Swedish

Taxinge-Näsby gods utanför Mariefred

First showing	1972-12-21	Cinema	New York	USA	91 min
Release in Sweden	1973-03-05	Spegeln	Gothenburg	Sweden	91 min
	1973-03-05	Camera	Malmö	Sweden	91 min
	1973-03-05	Spegeln	Stockholm	Sweden	91 min	(samt ytterligare 1 plats)
Other showing	1974		Warsaw	Poland		(endast filmstudios och Art Cinemas)
TV showing	1977-04-08	TV2		Sweden	87 min
	1979-05-10	TV2		Sweden	87 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	1993-03-15
	1993-08-11
	1993-08-12
Video release	1997-09			Sweden	87 min
TV showing	2000-03-01	HRT-1		Croatia
	2000-06-18	SVT1		Sweden	87 min
	2003-08-30	SVT1		Sweden	87 min
	2006-01-30	SVT1		Sweden	87 min
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2006-10-25
TV showing	2007-08-05	TV4		Sweden
Festival showing	2008-01-26	Capitol	Gothenburg	Sweden	91 min	(Göteborg Film Festival. Ingmar Bergman-retrospektiv)
Other showing	2018-02-01	Janus Films	New York	USA
FIAF showing	2018-02-04	British Film Institute	London	United Kingdom
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-03-11	Bergamo Film Meeting	Bergamo	Italy
	2018-03-25	Verdensteatret, Tromsø		Norway
	2018-04-11	Beyoglu	Istanbul	Turkey
	2018-04-12	Kadikoy	Istanbul	Turkey
	2018-04-12	The Projector	Singapore	Singapore
FIAF showing	2018-04-28	La Cinemathèque québécoise	Montreal	Canada
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-07-05	Filmpodium	Zürich	Switzerland
	2018-07-13	Babylon	Berlin	Germany
	2018-08-03	Øst for Paradis	Aarhus	Denmark
FIAF showing	2018-08-07	Det Danske Filminstitut	Copenhagen	Denmark
	2018-08-10	Cinema Orion	Helsinki	Finland
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-08-19	Korjaamo Kino Töölö	Helsinki	Finland
	2018-08-19	Korjaamo Kino Bio Rex	Helsinki	Finland
	2018-08-22	Metropolis	Hamburg	Germany
	2018-08-23	Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival	Taipei	Taiwan
TV showing	2018-09-07	SVT2		Sweden
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-09-10	Kino Rex	Bern	Switzerland
	2018-09-13	Films by the sea	Vlissingen	The Netherlands
	2018-09-20	HKIFF	Hong Kong	China
FIAF showing	2018-10-01	Jerusalem Cinematheque	Jerusalem	Israel
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-10-03	LAB111	Amsterdam	The Netherlands
	2018-10-18	HKIFF	Hong Kong	China
	2018-10-23	Splendid Palace	Riga	Latvia
	2018-11-01	Panak OÜ/Artis 1	Tallinn	Estonia
	2018-11-05	Cinemania Fest/Cinema House	Sofia	Bulgaria
	2018-11-05	Cinemania Fest/LumieRE Pl Sofia		Bulgaria
	2018-11-05	Cinemania Fest/Odeon	Sofia	Bulgaria
	2018-11-07	Kolkata Film Festival	Kolkata	India
Cinematheque screening	2018-11-14	Filmhuset	Stockholm	Sweden
Cinemateksvisning, arkivkopia	2018-11-14
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-11-25	International Film Festival of Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	India
FIAF showing	2018-12-01	La Cinemathèque québécoise	Montreal	Canada
Non Swedish theater exkl FIAF	2018-12-01	International Film Festival of Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	India
FIAF showing	2018-12-03	Cineteca di Bologna	Bologna	Italy
	2018-12-16	Black Box	Düsseldorf	Germany
TV showing	2022-02-07	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-02-11	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-02-19	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-04-23	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-05-08	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-05-12	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-08-14	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-08-24	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-09-06	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-10-13	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-10-22	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2022-10-25	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-02-06	SF Kanalen		Sweden	95 min
	2023-02-10	SF Kanalen		Sweden	95 min
	2023-02-18	SF Kanalen		Sweden	95 min
	2023-04-22	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-07	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-05-11	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-09-05	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-10-12	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-10-21	SF Kanalen		Sweden
	2023-10-24	SF Kanalen		Sweden

Original title	Cello Suite nr 5 c-moll
Composer	Johann Sebastian Bach

Original title	Mazurka nr 13 a-moll opus 17 nr 4
Composer	Frédéric Chopin

The Jussi Award	Helsinki	1975			(årets bästa utländska film)
Academy Award Nomination	Los Angeles	1974		Marik Vos	(bästa kostymdesign / Best Costume Design)
	Los Angeles	1974		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa originalmanus / Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced)
	Los Angeles	1974		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa regi / Best Director)
	Los Angeles	1974			(bästa film / Best Picture)
Syrena Warszawska	Warsaw	1974			(bästa utländska film)
Festival Award	Belgrade	1974			(jugoslaviska kritikernas pris)
Nastro d'Argento		1974			(bästa utländska film)
David di Donatello Award	Taormina	1974
Bodil (Denmark)	Copenhagen	1974			(bästa europeiska film)
The Guldbagge Award	Stockholm	1973	Special Achievement	Sven Nykvist	(för fotot)
	Stockholm	1973	Best Picture		(Svenska Filminstitutets kvalitetsbidrag om 316 966 kr)
	Stockholm	1973	Best Actress in a Leading Role	Harriet Andersson
Prize	Stockholm	1973		Harriet Andersson	(1972 års SF-stipendium)
		1973			(belgiskt filmpris "för konstnärliga förtjänster")
	London	1973		Sven Nykvist	(tidskriften Films & Filmings pris för bästa färgfoto)
National Board of Review		1973		Liv Ullmann	(roll)
		1973		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa regi)
		1973			(bästa utländska film)
The Kurt Linder Grant	Stockholm	1973		Kari Sylwan	(roll)
Commission Supérieure Technique du Cinéma	Cannes	1973
Academy Award of Merit	Hollywood	1973		Sven Nykvist	(bästa foto)
Circle Prize	New York	1972		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa manus)
National Society of Film Critics		1972		Sven Nykvist	(bästa foto)
		1972		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa manus)
Circle Prize	New York	1972		Liv Ullmann	(bästa skådespelerska)
	New York	1972		Ingmar Bergman	(bästa regi)
	New York	1972			(bästa film)

Sven Nykvist (1990)		Cries and Whispers (1973)
Light Keeps Me Company (2000)		Cries and Whispers (1973)

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

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Carrier type	35 mm

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Element type	Duplicate positive
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Length	280

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	ROP OCH VISKNINGAR

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	1
Poster title	Kenneth Rive Presents Ingmar Bergman's CRIES AND WHISPHERS

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 70 x 100 cm
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Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	1

Size	Smaller than 40 x 75 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
Quantity	2

Size	About 60 x 80 cm
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Type	Press Cuttings

Script type	Peripheral material
Language	Swedish

Script type	Synopsis
Script title	En film av Ingmar Bergman.
Extent	69 s. Introduktion och rollbeskrivning (6 s.) ingår.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Extent	31 s. + 6 s. introduktion och rollbeskrivning.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	English dialogue list. Cries and whispers. (Whispers and shouts).
Extent	19 s.
Language	English

Script type	Dialoglista
Script title	Cinematograph presenterar Viskningar och rop. En film av Ingmar Bergman. Sjätte avsnittet.
Extent	17 s.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	Swedish

Script type	Dialoglista
Language	English

Script type	Synopsis
Script title	En film av Ingmar Bergman.
Extent	69 s. Introduktion och rollbeskrivning (6 s.) ingår.
Language	Swedish

Script type	Inspelningsmanus
Extent	31 s. + 6 s. introduktion och rollbeskrivning.
Language	Swedish

Black and white print	SET
Colour prints	SET
Behind the scenes prints	SET
Slides	10
Album	No

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	Swedish

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
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Type	Program/Reklamtryck
Language	English

Type	Program/Reklamtryck
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Sound type	Sound
Colour type	Colour
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Length in minutes	92 min
Dialogue	Swedish

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