SUBJECTS

Interpersonal relations -- Sweden -- Drama, Isaksson, Ulla, 1916- -- Film and video adaptations, Jealousy -- Drama, Man-woman relationships -- Sweden -- Drama

The Blessed Ones

(De två saliga)

featuring

Harriet Andersson, Per Myrberg, Christina Schollin, Lasse Poysti,

Bergman’s first feature after abandoning 35mm film for television technology, The Blessed Ones is a tale of tortured love between a middle-aged woman and a slightly younger man, and the jealousies that arise from their outward differences and internal melancholies. The schoolteacher Viveka ekes out a life, seemingly keeping on through sheer willpower; the failed theology student Sune barely has even that. A chance meeting provides them both with new hope and new love, one that must still overcome each lover’s self-loathing. Brutally candid, The Blessed Ones is “a melodrama reeking of both sulphur and perfume” (Dagens nyheter).

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Ingmar Bergman
Cinematographer
  • Sten Modigh
Language
  • Swedish
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DVCam
  • 81 mins
Source
  • SVT