Scenes from a Marriage

1974
Poster Scenes from a Marriage

Title: Scenes from a Marriage

Original Title: Scener ur ett äktenskap

Year: 1974

Info

  • Country: Sweden
  • Length: 169 Minutes (2 hours 49 min)
  • Budget: $150,000
  • Genre: Drama

Release Dates

  • United States: September 21 1974

Plot

The film 'Scenes from a Marriage' is based on its homonymous Swedish tv series. Ingmar Bergman is again the flimmaker and writer of the film. In addition, the whole cast came back from the tv series to do the film. It chronicles the life of Marianne and Johan, a family lawyer especialices in divorce and a psychology teacher, and their marriage through many years in which we can see the development in their relationship: infidelity, divorce and subsequent partners.

It is not simply a narrative about a relationship and its ups and downs, but a film that examines topics like love, loneliness, what it means to feel fulfilled or the need of security and validation of another person.

Cast

Director:

Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman

Trivia

Film adaptation

'Scenes from a Marriage' is in fact an adaptation based on the Swedish tv series with the same name. The filmmaker, writer and cast of the first project are the same ones of the film.

'Scenes from a Marriage''s legacy

The 'Scenes from a Marriage''s plot has been adapted multiple times through the decades. On the other hand, we can found many references to its narratives in several films, like Paul Mazursky's 'Scenes from a Mall', with Woody Allen in the leading role. It's a dark comedy about a deteriorating marriage.

Increase in divorces

In the year of it's release, 1974, the divorce rate in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) increased tremendously.

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