The Touch
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With his first English-language film, a critical and box-office disaster, Ingmar Bergman delivered a compelling portrait of conflicting desires. In The Touch, a chance encounter between seemingly contented housewife Karin (Bibi Andersson) and David (Elliott Gould), an intense American archaeologist scarred by his family’s past, leads to the initiation of a torrid and tempestuous affair, one that eventually threatens the stability of Karin’s marriage to a respected local surgeon (Max von Sydow). Upon its release, the filmmaker declared this emotionally complex and sensitively performed film to be his first real love story.
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Cast
- Elliott Gould
- David Kovac
- Bibi Andersson
- Karin Vergerus
- Max von Sydow
- Andreas Vergerus
- Sheila Reid
- Sara Kovac
Credits
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Producer
- Lars-Owe Carlberg
- Cinematographer
- Sven Nykvist
- Music
- Carl Michael Bellman
- Music
- Peter Covent
- Music
- Jan Johansson
- Editor
- Siv Lundgren
- Production design
- Ann-Christin Lobråten
- Production design
- P. A. Lundgren
- Costume design
- Mago
- Costume design
- Ethel Sjöholm
- Makeup
- Cecilia Drott
- Makeup
- Bengt Ottekil
- Assistant director
- Arne Carlsson
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