Wild Strawberries

First jarring then absorbing in its candor, director Ingmar Bergman’s opening from his original screenplay, narrated by Victor Sjostrom as Professor Borg, leading to the credits, from the internationally celebrated Wild Strawberries, 1957.

Having spontaneously stopped at the his family’s old country vacation home, dismissing his daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), Professor Isak Borg recalls his youth, his cousin Sara (Bibi Andersson) and eldest brother (Per Sjostrand), in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, 1957.

Immediately after the credits, Victor Sjostrom as aging Professor Borg having introduced himself by narration in the opening, then the first part of the first dream sequence, from writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, 1957.

On vacant Swedish highways, having decided to drive rather than fly to a faraway ceremony honoring him, Victor Sjostrom as Professor Borg converses with his outwardly civil daughter-in-law (Ingrid Thulin), tensions revealed, in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, 1957.