With a screenplay by Academy Award Winner Ingmar Bergman (Fanny and Alexander) Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror) masterfully directs this heartwarming love story following the lives of Bergman's parents. Henrik Bergman an impoverished Lutheran pastor falls in love with a wealthy girl Anna. Despite her mother's attempts to discourage the relationship Anna's love grows stronger and the two eventually wed. A compelling look at the hardships extreme faith and rigid discipline of his father and his lifelong commitment to his wife Best Intentions sheds a powerful light... onto the themes that have appeared in all of Ingmar Bergman's best movies. [show more]
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Very loosely based on the account of his parents in Ingmar Bergman's autobiography 'The Magic Lantern', the film begins in 1909 when Henrik (Samuel Froler) is studying to be a priest. Though engaged to a waitress, he falls in love with Anna (Pernilla August) but their relationship is disapproved of by both mothers. After many misunderstandings (intercepted love letters etc) they do get married but Anna finds life with a poor parish priest frustratingly austere. Winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes 1992.
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