Dreams

Grave and witty by turns, Dreams develops into a probing study of the psychology of desire. Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck), head of a modeling agency, takes her protégée Doris (Harriet Andersson) to a fashion show in Göteborg, where Susanne makes contact with a former lover, and Doris finds herself pursued by a married dignitary (Gunnar Björnstrand). With its parallel narratives and subtle compositions, this film marked a transition between Ingmar Bergman’s early explorations of affairs of the heart and the more somber and virtuosic masterpieces to come later in the fifties.

Sweden
1955
87 minutes
Black & White
1.37:1
Swedish

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Cast & Credits

Cast

Eva Dahlbeck: Susanne
Harriet Andersson: Doris
Gunnar Björnstrand: Consul Otto Sönderby
Ulf Palme: Mr. Henrik Lobelius
Inga Landgré: Mrs. Lobelius
Benkt-Åke Benktsson: Mr. Magnus
Sven Lindberg: Palle Palt
Kerstin Hedeby: Marianne

Credits

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Rune Waldekranz
Cinematographer: Hilding Bladh
Editor: Carl-Olov Skeppstedt
Production design: Gittan Gustafsson
Makeup department: Sture Höglund
Assistant director: Hans Abramson
Sound: Olle Jacobsson

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The Swedish auteur began his artistic career in the theater but eventually navigated toward film—"the great adventure," as he called it—initially as a screenwriter and then as a director. Simply put, in the fifties and sixties, the name Ingmar Bergman was synonymous with European art cinema. Yet his incredible run of successes in that era—including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and The Virgin Spring, haunting black-and-white elegies on the nature of God and death—merely paved the way for a long and continuously dazzling career that would take him from the daring “Silence of God” trilogy (Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence) to the existential terrors of Cries and Whispers to the family epic Fanny and Alexander, with which he “retired” from the cinema. Bergman died in July 2007, leaving behind one of the richest bodies of work in the history of cinema.