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• Prison | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £9.00   |  Saving you £10.99 (122.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A maths teacher approaches a former pupil now a film director with an idea for a film: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. Upon considering the idea for his next project the director shares his memories with a journalist while filming an ill-fated passage from his past... Based in and around a movie studio this experimental and intriguing film is essentially a film within a film and is notable for being the first Bergman film in which Death a key leitmotif makes an appea

• Ingmar Bergman Volume 1 (5 - Disc Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/07/2021) from £36.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  For over 50 years, Ingmar Bergman produced ground-breaking works of cinema that established him as one of the world's most acclaimed, enduring and influential filmmakers. Ingmar Bergman: Volume One marks the first of a four volume celebration of the auteur's work - available on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK - and reflects on the opening stages of Bergman's career. Presented over five discs, the set features 2K restorations of eight early films written or directed by Bergman. Including initial partnerships with regular collaborators (such as cinematographer Gunnar Fischer and actor Birger Malmsten), these early works exhibit his burgeoning talents, introducing themes and tones that he would continue to develop over the next five decades. The films: Torment (Dir. Alf Sjöberg | Scr. Ingmar Bergman, 1944), Crisis (1946), Eva (Dir. Gustaf Molander | Scr. Ingmar Bergman, 1948), Music in Darkness (1948), Port of Call (1948), Prison (1949), Three Strange Loves (1949), To Joy (1950) 5-Blu-ray set featuring 2K restorations of all 8 films Perfect-bound book featuring new essays by Jan Holmberg (CEO of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation), Philip Kemp, Geoff Andrew, Jessica Kiang, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Kat Ellinger, and Laura Hubner Ingmar Bergman: The Early Years (2021): a new video essay by writer, filmmaker and film journalist Leigh Singer Ingmar Bergman Guardian Interview (1982, 62 mins, audio only): Bergman pays tribute to Alf Sjöberg, the director of Torment, discussing his influence and impact on his own career Other extras TBC Limited edition (5,000 units) Newly commissioned artwork by Andrew Bannister

• Summer Interlude | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Talented young ballerina Marie (Nilsson) falls in love with wealthy young college student Henrik Malmsten). After spending the summer together Henrik suffers a tragic accident and as a result his death continues to shape Marie's actions throughout her life...

• Crisis | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (57.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  18 year old Nelly (Inga Landgre) lives a quiet life in a small town with her foster mother. There she makes a living giving piano lessons and letting a room to Ulf (Allan Bohlin) who is in love with her. Despite her financial problems Nelly's foster mother manages to save enough money to buy a new dress to wear at a charity ball. However when Nelly's real mother Jenny (Marianne Lfgren) also buys a dress Nelly wears this instead. Attracted by the glamorous garment and the pr

• Torment | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Torment (also known as Frenzy) was based on Ingmar Bergman's first screenplay and was directed by another great Swedish director Alf Sjoberg. The film charts the relationship between sensitive school boy Jan-Erik (Alf Kjellin) his sadistic overbearing school master nicknamed Caligula (Stig Jarrel) and his older girlfriend Bertha (Mai Zetterling). Jan-Erik discovers that he is not the only man Bertha is seeing is being stalked and harassed by a mysterious older man. A visit to B

• To Joy | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Ingmar Bergman's key early works - directed when he was just 30 years old - To Joy explores some of the themes that would come to chracterise many of his later films: the incompatibility of spouses and the responsibility of artists. Marta and Stig both play in an orchestra conducted by Sonderby. Their relationship is a happy one and they soon decide to get married and have children. However things begin to turn sour when Stig begins a sordid affair that threatens to dest

• Eva | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (122.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Years after a childhood accident leads to the death of his friend a 10 year old blind girl Bo moves to a remote island with his beautiful wife Eva. Troubled by nightmares that figure him as the killer close to him he is in a constant state of anxiety. Then one stormy night he is forced to confront his greatest fears and assume the responsisbility for the lives of those he loves as he rows his pregnant wife to the mainland. Released in 1948 this gripping film was the second Berg