After the Rehearsal

Infobox_Film
name = After the Rehearsal


imdb_id = 0087193
writer = Ingmar Bergman
starring = Erland Josephson
Ingrid Thulin
Lena Olin
Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss
Bertil Guve
director = Ingmar Bergman
producer = Jörn Donner
cinematography = Sven Nykvist
distributor =
released = April 9, 1984
runtime = 70 min
language = Swedish
budget =

"After the Rehearsal" ("Efter repetitionen" in the original Swedish) is a made-for-TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. The script contains numerous quotes from Strindberg's Drömspel.

Plot summary

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's "A Dream Play". She talks of her hatred for her mother (now dead), an alcoholic actress who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.

Cast

*Erland Josephson ("Henrik Vogler (older)")
*Ingrid Thulin ("Rakel Egerman")
*Lena Olin ("Anna Egerman (older)")
*Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss ("Anna Egerman (younger)")
*Bertil Guve ("Henrik Vogler (younger)")

External links

* [http://imdb.com/title/tt0087193/ IMDB]