Shame

Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Shame (Skammen) is at once an examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by cinematographer Sven Nykvist’s handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric of their relationship. This film, which contains some of the most devastating scenes in Bergman’s oeuvre, shows the impact of war on individual lives.

Sweden
1968
103 minutes
Black & White
1.37:1
Swedish
Spine #961

Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Interviews with director Ingmar Bergman and a brief excerpt from a press conference for the film, recorded in 1967 and ’68 for Swedish television
New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman, a 1968 documentary made during the film’s production, featuring an extensive interview with Bergman
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow

New cover by Anthony Gerace

Blu‑ray 1 Disc $27.96 SRP: $39.95

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Special Features

New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Interviews with director Ingmar Bergman and a brief excerpt from a press conference for the film, recorded in 1967 and ’68 for Swedish television
New interview with actor Liv Ullmann
An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman, a 1968 documentary made during the film’s production, featuring an extensive interview with Bergman
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Michael Sragow

New cover by Anthony Gerace

Cast & Credits

Cast

Liv Ullmann: Eva Rosenberg
Max von Sydow: Jan Rosenberg
Sigge Fürst: Filip
Gunnar Björnstrand: Jacobi
Birgitta Valberg: Mrs. Jacobi
Hans Alfredson: Lobelius
Ingvar Kjellson: Oswald
Frank Sundström: Chief interrogator
Ulf Johansson: The doctor
Vilgot Sjöman: The interviewer
Bengt Eklund: Guard
Gösta Prüzelius: The vicar
Barbro Hiort af Ornäs: Woman in the boat

Credits

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
Cinematography: Sven Nykvist
Editor: Ulla Ryghe
Art direction: P. A. Lundgren
Production manager: Lars-Owe Carlberg
Sound: Lennart Engholm
Costume design: Mago
Hair and makeup: Börje Lundh
Script continuity: Faragó Katinka
Military adviser: Lennart Bergqvist
Military adviser: Stig Lindberg
Sound effects: Evald Andersson

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Ingmar Bergman

Director

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.