Wild Strawberries

Name: Wild Strawberries
Genre: Drama
Released: 1957-08-28
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jullan Kindahl

Smultronstället (1957)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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Budget

Box office

$20 652

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Director

Ingmar Bergman

Actors

Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jullan Kindahl, Folke Sundquist, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Naima Wifstrand, Gunnel Broström, Gertrud Fridh
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Scenario

Producer

Allan Ekelund

Camera operator

Gunnar Fischer

Composer

Erik Nordgren

Artist

Gittan Gustafsson

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Editing

Oscar Rosander
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Short description

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

What's left behind the scenes

The initials of the main character 'I.B' (Isaac Borg) are identical to the initials of the director and screenwriter (Ingmar Bergman).
Like many other Bergman films, this one is largely autobiographical.
"Strawberry Fields" – a strawberry patch. Alternatively, this phrase can be interpreted as "a memory (recollection) associated with strawberries," which largely corresponds to the content of the film.
The performer of the main role, Victor Sjöström, died two years and a week after the film's release.
Bergman wrote the script for this film while in the hospital.
In Sweden, "Strawberry Patch" is a slang term for psychiatric hospitals.
"Smultronstället" literally translates from Swedish as "Wild Strawberry Patch".
The music for "Strawberry Fields" was written by Erik Nordgren several years earlier – for Bergman's film "Summer Interlude" (1951).
Naima Wifstrand, who played Isaac Borg's mother, was actually 11 years younger than the actor who played that role, Victor Sjöström.
In Sweden, "Strawberry Patch" is a slang term for psychiatric hospitals.
"Smultronstället" literally translates from Swedish as "Wild Strawberry Place".
The music for "Strawberry Patch" was composed by Erik Nordgren several years earlier – for Bergman’s film "Summer Interlude" (1951).