| Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
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| Screenplay by | Ingmar Bergman |
| Based on | Trämålning by Ingmar Bergman |
| Produced by | Allan Ekelund |
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| Cinematography | Gunnar Fischer |
| Edited by | Lennart Wallén |
| Music by | Erik Nordgren |
| Distributed by | AB Svensk Filmindustri |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Sweden |
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| Budget | $150,000 |
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Whoever wants things from you will reach for ways to get them. Manipulation by threats and lies, intimidation, accusations, remonstrations, false hopes, insincere sympathy— time eventually exposes the sordid truth and then you can either live with it or fight for something better. Once the illusions are gone there’s only hope and strife.
As for why we suffer and die, no one will say anything except maybe there’s no God and no angels watch over us. Meditation is prayer without entreaties. You can satisfy yourself with prayer but if you get a reply, it’s time to talk with a professional. If you believe we have a purpose here, and you don’t think we it made for ourselves, you must ultimately base your belief on faith because, otherwise, the evidence is lacking.
It’s complex and not based on chance. You make your moves and if you fail you can’t talk your way out of it.
We’ll never experience our own deaths until it’s too late to understand it. A hooded skeleton with his scythe leads a dance of rich and poor, old and young to a graveyard, and even they don’t understand it. It’s both nothing and everything.
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