Through a glass darkly
2003
DVD
While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family's already fragile ties are tested when Karin discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, her father, husband, and younger brother are unable to prevent Karin's harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780780027022
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: 14A.
Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
- Special features: new high-definition transfer, with restored image and sound ; exploring the film: video discussion with Ingmar Bergman biographer Peter Cowie ; new essay by film scholar Peter Matthews ; original U.S. theatrical trailer ; optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition.
- Photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Ulla Ryghe ; music, E. Blöndal Bengtsson.
- Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max Von Sydow, Lars Passgård.
- DVD ; full screen presentation.
- For private home use only.
- Includes audio tracks in Swedish with subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: THR070
Control Number: 524830
UPC: 037429181621
Publisher: Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2003]Series:
- Criterion collection
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)
- Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 209
- Criterion collection ; 209.
Subjects:
- Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007. Filmtrilogi. English -- Film adaptations.
- Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007. Filmtrilogi. English -- Television adaptations.
- Families -- Fiction.
- Foreign films -- Sweden.
- Mental illness -- Fiction.
- Motion pictures, Swedish.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Andersson, Harriet.
- Bengtsson, Erling Bløndal, 1932-2013.
- Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007.
- Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007. Filmtrilogi. English.
- Björnstrand, Gunnar, 1909-1986.
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Janus Films.
- Nykvist, Sven.
- Passgård, Lars, 1941-2003.
- Ryghe, Ulla.
- Svensk filmindustri.
- Sydow, Max von, 1929-2020.