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Svensk Filmindustri
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
Featuring: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Anders Ek, Inga Gill, Erland Josephson, Henning Moritzen, Georg Arlin
This existential wail of a drama from Ingmar Bergman concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s most striking formal experiments, Cries and Whispers (which won an Oscar for the extraordinary color photography of Sven Nykvist) is a powerful depiction of human behavior in the face of death, positioned on the borders between reality and nightmare, tranquillity and terror.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Swedish Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Introduction, Interview, Video Essay, Behind the Scenes Footage, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman from 2001
- New interview with actor Harriet Andersson, conducted by historian Peter Cowie
- On Solace, a new video essay by filmmaker ::kogonada
- Behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Peter Cowie
- Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love with Erland Josephson (2000), a fifty-two-minute interview with Bergman and his longtime collaborator
- Trailer
- Insert featuring an essay by film scholar Emma Wilson
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Release Credits
Producer: Kim Hendrickson
Artwork: Eric Skillman
Producer: Johanna Schiller
Release Notes on Restoration
Cries & Whispers
Cries and Whispers is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. On standard televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On standard and widescreen televisions, black bars may also be visible on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new transfer was created in 2K resolution on an ARRISCAN film scanner from the 35mm original camera negative at Chimney in Stockholm. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI's DRS, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for small dirt, grain, noise management, flicker, and jitter.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 17.5mm magnetic tracks. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube's integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at 24-bit from the 17.5mm magnetic tracks. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Pro Tools HD, AudioCube's integrated workstation, and iZotope RX 4.