Through a Glass Darkly

Writer and director Ingmar Bergman’s opening, at distance introducing his only four characters, Gunnar Bjornstrand as father David, Harriet Andersson daughter Karin, Max von Sydow husband Martin, Lars Passgard the brother Minus, in the Best Foreign Language Film winner from 1961, Through A Glass Darkly.

After a dramatic discussion, on a remote Swedish island, between her father and husband, of her incurable psychiatric condition, Karin (Harriet Andersson) speaks with her troubled brother Minus (Lars Passgard), Ingmar Bergman directing from his original screenplay, in Through A Glass Darkly, 1961.