Eclipse Series 1: Early Bergman (Previously Owned DVD)

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ECLIPSE SERIES 1

EARLY BERGMAN

Before The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries established him as one of the great masters of cinema, Ingmar Bergman created a series of devastating but less well-known psychological character studies, marked by intricate, layered narratives, gritty environments, and haunting visuals. These early films, which show the stirrings of the genius to come, remain the hidden treasures of a European cinema on the cusp of a golden age.

TORMENT (Hets) Ingmar Bergman's first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Siöberg's Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior. Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl. Bertha, he finds himself. caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.

CRISIS (Kris) Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen-year-old daughter, Neily, whom she abandoned as a child! from the loving woman who has raised her. Once in Stock-holm, Nelly recelves a crash course in adult corruption and wrenching heartbreak.

PORT OF CALL (Hamnstad) Bert, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for Gosta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gosta might save her from self-destruction

THIRST (Torst) A couple traveling across a war-ravaged Europe. A disinter grating marriage. A ballet cancer's scarred past. Her friend's psychological agony. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads. Thirst shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation

TO JOY (Till gladje) An orchestra violinist's dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage to the patient, caring Marta, Played out to the music of Beethoven, To Joy is a heartbreaking tale of one man's inability to overcome the demons standing in the way of his happiness