Through a Glass Darkly
While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family finds its fragile ties tested when daughter Karin (an astonishing Harriet Andersson) discovers her father (Gunnar Björnstrand) has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary ends. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, Karin’s father, her husband (Max von Sydow), and her younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent her descent into the abyss of mental illness. Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Through a Glass Darkly, the first work in Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy on faith and the loss of it, presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by the intangibility of God’s presence.
Special Features
- On the DVD: High-definition digital transfer
- On the Blu-ray: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Introduction to the film by director Ingmar Bergman, recorded in 2003 (Blu-ray only)
- Interview from 2003 with film scholar Peter Cowie
- Interview from 2012 with actor Harriet Andersson (Blu-ray only)
- Audio interview from 1962 with actor Gunnar Björnstrand (Blu-ray only)
- Illustrated audio interview with cinematographer Sven Nykvist, recorded in 1981 (Blu-ray only)
- With the DVD: An essay by film scholar Peter Matthews
- Original U.S. theatrical trailer
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack
Available In
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Collector's Set
Special Features
- On the DVD: High-definition digital transfer
- On the Blu-ray: New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Introduction to the film by director Ingmar Bergman, recorded in 2003 (Blu-ray only)
- Interview from 2003 with film scholar Peter Cowie
- Interview from 2012 with actor Harriet Andersson (Blu-ray only)
- Audio interview from 1962 with actor Gunnar Björnstrand (Blu-ray only)
- Illustrated audio interview with cinematographer Sven Nykvist, recorded in 1981 (Blu-ray only)
- With the DVD: An essay by film scholar Peter Matthews
- Original U.S. theatrical trailer
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack
Cast
- Harriet Andersson
- Karin
- Max von Sydow
- Martin
- Gunnar Björnstrand
- David
- Lars Passgård
- Minus
Credits
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Written by
- Ingmar Bergman
- Cinematographer
- Sven Nykvist
- Editor
- Ulla Ryghe
- Assistant director
- Lenn Hjortzberg
- Art director
- P. A. Lundgren
- Production manager
- Allan Ekelund
- Music
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Music performed by
- Erling Blöndal Bengtsson
- Sound
- Stig Flodin
- Costume design
- Mago
- Makeup
- Börje Lundh
- Unit manager
- Lars-Owe Carlberg
- Script continuity
- Ulla Furås
A scene from Through a Glass Darkly
