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The Best Intentions (1992)

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Director:

Bille August

Starring:

Bjorn Kjellman, Ghita Norby, Max von Sydow, Pernilla August, Samuel Froler

Genres:

Biography, Epics, Television, Period Drama, Romantic Drama

Origin:

Sweden

Certificate:

PG

Languages:

Swedish With Subtitles

Subtitles:

English

Running Time:

182 min

The Best Intentions

synopsis


Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille August while the film was in progress) is from a well-to-do family. Despite the expected class differences and personality clashes, love-or at least mutual understanding-prevails. But after a harsh, spare few years as the wife of a clergyman, Anna yearns for the more bountiful pleasures of her family home. Bergman writes himself into the proceedings as a mewling infant. The current three-hour theatrical version of Best Intentions (original title: Den Goda Viljan) was simultaneously prepared as a six-hour TV miniseries, which ran in Europe, Scandanavia, and Japan. -Hal Erickson.

 
 

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