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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.
Original Release
06/06/1961
US Release
06/06/1961
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Harriet Andersson | Karin / Karin - sister |
Gunnar Björnstrand | David / David - father |
Max von Sydow | Martin / Martin - Karin's husband |
Lars Passgård | Minus / Minus - brother |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Harriet Andersson | Karin / Karin - sister |
Gunnar Björnstrand | David / David - father |
Max von Sydow | Martin / Martin - Karin's husband |
Lars Passgård | Minus / Minus - brother |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Allan Ekelund | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1963 | Oscar | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen | Nominated |
1962 | Oscar | Best Foreign Language Film | Won |