AUTUMN SONATA
synopsis
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each other.
international title: | Autumn Sonata |
original title: | Höstsonaten |
country: | Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden |
year: | 1978 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ingmar Bergman |
film run: | 99' |
release date: | SE 08/10/1978, FR 11/10/1978, IT 14/10/1978, DE 19/10/1978, NL 26/10/1978, NO 08/11/1978, FI 15/12/1978, DK 05/02/1979, ES 05/03/1979, UK 03/1979, PT 14/09/1979, PL 09/1979, HU 11/10/1979, DD 23/11/1979, BG 11/10/2018 |
screenplay: | Ingmar Bergman |
cast: | Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Ingmar Bergman |
cinematography by: | Sven Nykvist |
film editing: | Sylvia Ingemarsson |
art director: | Anna Asp |
costumes designer: | Inger Pehrsson |