Wild Strawberries

Isak Borg, a retired physician in his late seventies, sets out from Stockholm by car to Lund to be honoured by his old university. His daughter-in-law Marianne, who has left her husband after a quarrel, comes along. As the two travel, they pick up a series of young hitchhikers, and the encounters push the old man to look back over his long life, its achievements and its coldness. Memories and dreams of places and people from his youth, including a first love, return to him along the way.

Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed the film, the fifth of the 24 features he directed in chronological order, coming after The Seventh Seal and before Rabies. Victor Sjöström, himself a director of the silent era, plays Isak Borg, with Bibi Andersson as Sara, Ingrid Thulin as Marianne, Gunnar Björnstrand as Evald and Folke Sundquist as Anders among the 33 credited cast members. Allan Ekelund produced for SF Studios, and the film runs 91 minutes.

Wild Strawberries was released in Sweden in August 1957. On IMDb it holds 8.1 out of 10 from roughly 124,000 votes, and on TMDB 8.1 out of 10 from about 1,900 votes. A critics' rating of 9.3 out of 10 from 49 reviews places it above those audience scores, reflecting its standing among the most widely discussed Swedish films of its period.