movie synopsis Wild Strawberries (1957)

movie story Wild Strawberries (1957)

The film opens while 78-yr-antique Isak Borg, performed with the aid of Victor Sjöström, is in mattress at domestic. He dreams approximately being on a town road without a different humans gift. A clock hanging above the road has no hands. Isak assessments his pocket watch; it too has no hands. A determine seems with its back became. Isak walks as much as the discern and touches it. It has no face. The discern collapses onto the pavement. Blood streams out of the determine. Subsequent a hearse drawn by using a group of horses turns a corner and enters the street on which the dream-Isak is standing. It processes Isak after which passes him but its rear wheel gets stuck on a lamppost. Despite the fact that no one is using the hearse, the horses preserve forward. The left rear wheel breaks off at the lamppost. The horses and hearse pressure away however the coffin comes unfastened, and slides out and onto the street. A hand seems at the out of doors of the coffin. Isak appears at the hand. His hand and the hand outstretched from the coffin touch, with the hand coming out of the coffin protecting Isak. The body in the coffin is also Isak. He awakes.

The viewer senses the loneliness in Isak. And that Isak's time is going for walks out. Those are themes that come up again and again through the day.

He leaves his bed room to waken his maid Agda, played by using Jullan Kindahl. Isak asks her to percent his suitcase and prepare breakfast for him. He has decided to force to Lund, in which he'll later nowadays receive an honorary doctorate as an award for his contributions to medicine. They squabble because that they had previously planned to fly from Stockholm to Lund. At the same time as consuming breakfast, Marianne, Isak's daughter-in-regulation, enters the breakfast room. She is played by using Ingrid Thulin. Marianne has been staying at Isak's residence, and asks if she will accompany Isak at the three hundred-mile drive from Stockholm to Lund. He is of the same opinion.

They leave. Marianne tries to smoke but Isak items. There may be some tension within the automobile nearly from the start of the experience. They manage to speak. Isak mentions that his son, Evald, owes his father money, and on precept goes to pay it again, a principle each father and son advise. Marianne talks approximately her courting with Evald, who, like his father, is a medical doctor. A bargain is found out, mainly in a flashback that summarizes the communique in the car. Her marriage to Evald (Gunnar Björnstrand) is disturbing and sad. Evald is as inflexible as Isak but Evald dislikes his father. Evald and Marianne quarreled sharply when she discovered to him that she changed into pregnant. He objected, and said he did not need children. Isak's marriage turned into also an sad one. At this particular juncture, the viewer develops a sense of the movie's strength of fact-telling.

Isak decides to make a detour, and drives to the house wherein, in the course of his children, he spent many summers. One may want to discover within the summer residence his dad and mom and 10 brothers and sisters as well as journeying cousins, uncles, and aunts. Marianne goes off to swim in the lake, leaving Isak alone. He walks up to a patch of wild strawberries (the Swedish title of the movie better translates to "wild strawberry patch"). Isak starts remembering his younger days at the house and the land nearby. Flashbacks with Isak still inside the scene show a number of what life turned into like there long ago. His cousin Sara is picking wild strawberries to present to her deaf uncle as a birthday present while Sigfrid (in keeping with Sjöstrand), Isak's brother, arrives. Sigfrid allows her pick out strawberries and flirts along with her. They kiss. She is before everything inclined but then breaks away. She is simply too devoted to the younger Isak to maintain the dalliance. Isak at that moment is away together with his father fishing within the lake.

On the lunch desk, Isak's dual sisters, who are loud and naive, record at the interlude between Sara and Sigfrid, embarrassing Sara. One of the twins is performed via director Ingmar Bergman's daughter. The older Isak seems in on the scene. Sara, disenchanted, leaves the table, and is consoled by means of her aunt, with Isak searching on. Sara describes how she thinks Isak is too excellent for her. He is too upright. Sigfrid is more playful.

The viewer learns that Isak turned into in love with Sara but in the long run she married his brother Sigfrid. Isak is the ultimate of the ten Borg kids alive. Sara, Sigfrid's widow, is still alive and in her 70s.

Near the house, a teenage female and  boys come into the scene. One is her boyfriend and the opposite is a kind of chaperone. They're hitchhiking. Their last destination is Italy. The lady, whose call is also Sara, is performed by way of Bibi Andersson (Bibi Andersson and Ingrid Thulin have lengthy been a part of Bergman's agency of gamers). Andersson also performs the Sara who became Isak's long-in the past love. Of course, the present-Sara reminds Isak of his lengthy-in the past, and misplaced, Sara. The men, Anders (Folke Sundquist) and Viktor (Björn Bjelfvenstam), argue approximately the lifestyles of God and different topics, and Sara tries to maintain their arguments civil. Despite the fact that one boy is towards Sara than the other, the viewer receives the feel that both are inquisitive about her, an awful lot the manner Sigfrid and Isak have been inquisitive about the Sara of lengthy in the past however simplest one will be successful together with her.

Again on the road, a Volkswagon beetle comes hurtling around a bend, and almost crashes into Isak's large antique Packard. Isak's black car is paying homage to a hearse. The VW turns over however the passengers are unhurt, physically this is. The person (Gunnar Sjöberg) and girl (Gunnel Broström) in the automobile are a married couple almost out of Strindberg. The coincidence, the husband admits, turned into the result of using whilst quarreling.

Isak consents to position the 2 within the automobile, and drive on in the direction of Lund. The husband and spouse are settled into jumper seats but keep to bicker. The husband needles the spouse continuously. She smacks him several instances. Marianne, who's riding, stops the auto, and orders the two to exit the car for the sake of the young people using inside the back.

The car, now reduced to five tourists, stops at a provider station that is run via a husband (Max von Sydow) and wife (Ann-Marie Wiman). Here we study some other facet of Isak. The couple may be very satisfied to peer Isak. Reputedly long in the past he labored some super remedy to help the own family. They admire him substantially, and sincerely refuse to let him pay for the fuel or any of the paintings they did on the automobile. She is pregnant, and plans to call her infant, if it's far a son, Isak, after the medical doctor. Isak asks them to notify him when the kid is born. He would like to be the kid's godfather.

They soon forestall at a restaurant. The institution has a satisfying lunch at an out of doors terrace overlooking the lovely Lake Vättern. Isak enjoys the business enterprise of the young human beings. The young human beings study Isak's award.

There's any other forestall on the journey. At Isak's request, Marianne drives to the residence of his ancient mother. Her residence is en path. Marianne accompanies Isak into the residence, and the younger human beings continue to be in the vehicle. Isak's mother is in her mid-90s and complains that she is usually bloodless and that none of her grandchildren go to her. Mrs. Borg indicates them a few vintage artifacts from an in advance era, vintage toys and a pocket watch without a palms, the same pocket watch that appeared in Isak's dream at the start of the film. Later inside the vehicle, Marianne tells Isak how she is inspired by way of the mom's coldness. Marianne senses how that coldness runs via the family all the way down to Evald.

Isak falls asleep in the vehicle while Marianne drives. He goals that he's being given an examination by means of a professor of drugs. The professor is none other than the person Marianne asked to depart the auto earlier that day. The cadaver he's to test is the person's wife however she is not useless. Isak fails the examination. Perhaps it was now not a scientific college examination at all but an exam of how a lonely and aloof guy lived his lifestyles. He awakes.

The car has stopped. The young human beings have long gone right into a forest glen to accumulate flora to make a bouquet for Isak. He's flattered by their interest.

They attain Lund. Evald is in his home to greet them. Agda is there too despite the fact that she turned into so angry inside the morning that there was a hazard she would no longer come. The 3 younger humans come. Isak, Marianne, and Evald dress for the rite that is an hour away. The younger people plant themselves along the path of the processional to cheer Isak. The rite expresses extremely good dignity and achievement, with many phrases uttered in Latin.

Afterwards Isak is in Evald and Marianne's house although the viewer has the feeling that it is not going to be Marianne's house tons longer. Isak attempts to result in Agda to call him by his first name; in any case they have got known every different for forty years. She declines.

Isak is in mattress in a 2d-ground bedroom. The young people serenade Isak from the lawn underneath. He wishes them well as they were given a lift to Hamburg and are closer but to their intention of reaching Italy.

Evald is available in. Isak wants Evald to forget about the debt. Isak additionally needs Evald and Marianne to reconcile. Marianne enters the room, and he or she and Isak have an affectionate exchange. The she heads off to celebration with Evald. The viewer receives a experience that Isak has to a point damaged thru his loneliness and reconciled with the vital people in his existence.

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