Efter repetitionen (After the Rehearsal) (1984)
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91% of critics liked it
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71% of users liked it
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Ingmar Bergman's After the Rehearsal stars Erland Josephson as a theater director named Henrik Volger. He is in the midst of mounting a production of a Strindberg play when he is visited by Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), an actress whom he has cast in the play. Volger was involved with Anna's… More Ingmar Bergman's After the Rehearsal stars Erland Josephson as a theater director named Henrik Volger. He is in the midst of mounting a production of a Strindberg play when he is visited by Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), an actress whom he has cast in the play. Volger was involved with Anna's mother, Rakel (Ingrid Thulin), an alcoholic has-been actress who once was Volger's lover. Rakel intrudes upon their conversation, and the two women confront Henrik about how he has lived his life. This 72-minute production originally aired on Swedish television before receiving theatrical distribution. The cinematographer on the film is Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ingmar Bergman
- Written By
- Ingmar Bergman
- Genres
- Drama, Television, Art House & International
R,
- In Theaters
- Apr 9, 1984 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
What we are left with at the end of After the Rehearsal, however, is the very strong sense of an artist who has sacrificed many lives for the sake of his art, and now wonders if perhaps one of those lives was his own.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
After the Rehearsal may well be another Bergman classic.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
There is something liberating in the very schematism of the project: he no longer needs to pretend that his mouthpieces are real people.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Ingmar Bergman's personal meditation about life and art introduced to international cinema the talented and sexy Lena Olin.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The director's mea culpa for choosing his art over his family life.
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Cast
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Bertil Guve
as Henrik at age 12
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Lena Olin
as Anna Egerman
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Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss
as Anna at age 12
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Ingrid Thulin
as Rakel Egerman
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Erland Josephson
as Henrik Vogler
