Dir.: Liv Ullmann; Script: Ingmar Bergman; Phot.: Sven Nykvist; Ed.: Michal Leszcylowski; Mus.: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Samuel Froler, Thomas Hanzon, Kristina Adolphson, Gunnel Fred, Hans Alfredson; Cast: Kaj Larsen, SVT Drama, Valhallavägen 117, Stockholm 10510 (Suède), tél.: (8) 784 67 77, fax: (8) 664 57 23; Prod. & Sales: The Sales Co., 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, Londres W1V 7DE (Grande-Bretagne), tél.: (44-171) 434 90 61, fax: (44-171) 494 32 93.

In these five "conversations", Ingmar Bergman expands on some of the partly autobiographical material that provided the basis for Bille August's THE BEST INTENTIONS (1989), with Pernilla August and Samuel Froler repeating their roles from the earlier film as Bergman's parents... As a young woman, Anna married Henrik, an earnest theology student. She finds herself stifled by his emotional needs but only realizes the gravity of her mistake when she meets Tomas, a younger man. Their illicit love affair makes her feel passionately alive, for the first time in years. But her happiness is also her torment. Caught between two very different worlds, she eventually turns to Jacob, who is at once her priest and an old friend she can trust. Jacob gives Anna advice that proves to have dramatic consequences. "You see, people like to speak of decisive moments. Dramatists in particular make much of this fiction. The truth is probably that such moments scarcely exist; they merely seem to... On closer inspection, the moment isn't at all decisive; for a long time, emotions and thoughts have been flowing, consciously or not, in the same direction. The actual breakout lies back in the distant past, deep in the darkness." -- Ingmar Bergman