Face to Face (1976 film)

Infobox_Film
name = Face to Face


imdb_id = 0074147
writer = Ingmar Bergman
starring = Liv Ullmann
Erland Josephson
Gunnar Björnstrand
Aino Taube
Kristina Adolphson
director = Ingmar Bergman
producer = Lars-Owe Carlberg
distributor =
released = flagicon|USA 5 April 1976
flagicon|Sweden April 28, 1976 (TV premiere)
runtime = 114 min
language = Swedish
budget =

"Face to Face" ( _sv. Ansikte mot ansikte) is a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.

Plot

Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullmann) is a psychiatrist married to another psychiatrist; both are successful in their jobs but slowly, agonizingly, Jenny succumbs to a breakdown. She is haunted by images and emotions from her past and eventually cannot function, either as a wife, a doctor or as an individual.

Cast

Principal cast (in credits order)

*Liv Ullmann (Dr. Jenny Isaksson)
*Erland Josephson (Dr. Tomas Jacobi)
*Aino Taube (The Grandmother)
*Gunnar Björnstrand (The Grandfather)
*Kristina Adolphson (Nurse Veronica)
*Marianne Aminoff (Jenny's mother)
*Gösta Ekman (Mikael Strömberg)
*Helene Friberg
*Ulf Johansson (Helmuth Wankel)
*Sven Lindberg (Jenny's husband)
*Jan-Erik Lindqvist (credited as Jan-Erik Lindqvist)
*Birger Malmsten (Rapist)
*Sif Ruud (Elisabeth Wankel)
*Göran Stangertz (Rapist)

Rest of cast (in alphabetical order)

*Lena Olin (Shop assistant)
*Rebecca Pawlo (Shop assistant)
*Gösta Prüzelius (Jenny's father)
*Tore Segelcke (The woman)
*Kari Sylwan (Maria)

Awards

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress (Ullmann) and Best Director (Bergman).

Ullmann was nominated by BAFTA in the Best Actress category.

She was also named Best Actress by the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, with the film winning Best Foreign Language Film at the latter.

It also was named by the Golden Globes as their Best Foreign Language Film of the year, with Ullmann also being nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama

Pop culture references

At the beginning of the Woody Allen film "Annie Hall", a poster for "Face to Face" is visible behind Annie and Alvy when they arrive late at a cinema.

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title=Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film
years=1976
before="Lies My Father Told Me"
after="A Special Day"

External links

*imdb title | id=0074147 | title=Face to Face