Per Olov Enquist's play about Selma Lagerlöf and Victor Sjöström after the shooting of The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman's favorite films of all time, seemed tailor-made for the director.
Director Victor Sjöström has been shooting Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Phantom Carriage. He has invited the author to Stockholm to show her a number of scenes from the film in the presence of the talented cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and the young actress Tora Teje. The meeting between Lagerlöf, an older woman and world-famous author, and a young and talented actress becomes the focal point of the drama.
The Image Makers deals with the creative process and the impulses which lie behind it, in this case the trauma caused to children who grow up with an alcoholic father.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Script: Per Olov Enquist
With: Anita Björk, Elin Klinga, Lennart HjulströmPjäs av Per Olov Enquist. Regi Ingmar Bergman.
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