From the Life of the Marionettes
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Made during his self-imposed exile in Germany, Ingmar Bergman’s From the Life of the Marionettes offers a lacerating portrait of a destructive marriage and a complex psychological analysis of a murder. Businessman Peter nurses fantasies of killing his wife, Katarina, until a prostitute becomes his surrogate prey. In the aftermath of the crime, Peter and Katarina’s psychiatrist and others attempt to explain its roots. Jumping back and forth in time, this compelling film moves seamlessly between seduction and repulsion, and the German cast is superb.
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Cast
- Robert Atzorn
- Peter Egermann
- Christine Buchegger
- Katarina Egermann
- Martin Benrath
- Professor Mogens Jensen
- Rita Russek
- Katarina Krafft
- Lola Müthel
- Cordelia Egermann
- Walter Schmidinger
- Tim Mandelbaum
- Heinz Bennent
- Arthur Brenner
- Ruth Olafs
- Nurse
- Karl-Heinz Pelser Karl-Heinz Pelser
- The interrogator
- Gaby Dohm
- Frau Anders
- Heino Hallhuber
- The choreographer
Credits
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer
- Horst Wendlandt
- Cinematographer
- Sven Nykvist
- Editor
- Petra von Oelffen
- Production design
- Rolf Zehetbauer
- Art direction
- Herbert Strabel
- Costume design
- Charlotte Flemming
- Costume design
- Heinz A. Schulze
- Makeup
- Mathilde Basedow
- Sound
- Peter Beil
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