Wild Strawberries

Name: Wild Strawberries
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-08-28
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jullan Kindahl

Smultronstället (1957)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Folke Sundquist, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Naima Wifstrand, Gunnel Broström, Gertrud Fridh
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Producer

Allan Ekelund

Operator

Gunnar Fischer

Composer

Erik Nordgren

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Gittan Gustafsson

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Oscar Rosander
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Short description

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

What's left behind the scenes

Naima Wifstrand, who played Isak Borg's mother, was actually 11 years younger than Victor Sjöström, the actor who played the lead role.
The lead actor, Victor Sjöström, died two years and one week after the film's release.
The initials of the main character, 'I.B.' (Isaac Borg), are identical to those of the director and screenwriter (Ingmar Bergman).
The initials of the main character 'I.B' (Isaac Borg) are identical to the initials of the director and screenwriter (Ingmar Bergman).
The performer of the main role, Victor Sjöström, died two years and a week after the film's release.
Like many other Bergman films, this one is largely autobiographical.
The music for "Strawberry Patch" was composed by Erik Nordgren several years earlier – for Bergman’s film "Summer Interlude" (1951).
Bergman wrote the screenplay for this film while in the hospital.
Like many of Bergman's other films, this one is largely autobiographical.
"Smultronstället" literally translates from Swedish as "Wild Strawberry Place".
In Sweden, "Strawberry Patch" is a slang term for psychiatric hospitals.
The music for 'Wild Strawberries' was written by Erik Nordgren several years earlier for Bergman's film 'Summer Interlude' (1951).
Naima Wifstrand, who played Isaac Borg's mother, was actually 11 years younger than the actor who played that role, Victor Sjöström.
Bergman wrote the script for this film while in the hospital.
"Strawberry Fields" – a strawberry patch. Alternatively, this phrase can be interpreted as "a memory (recollection) associated with strawberries," which largely corresponds to the content of the film.