Cinema: Scenes from the Intimate Theater

AFTER THE REHEARSAL Directed and written by Ingmar Bergman

No other film maker of the first rank has devoted himself so fully to another medium as Ingmar Bergman has to the stage. Since his career began in 1944 (when his first screenplay was produced, and he was named artistic director of the Halsingborg City Theater), Bergman has spent most of his time as one of the world's premier theater directors. For him, the writing and directing of films is both a vacation from and an extension of his stage work. In films from Smiles of...

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