Wild Strawberries (1957)
95%RT Audience Score: 94%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 1 Oscar
18 wins & 4 nominations total
Wild Strawberries were never so bittersweet as Ingmar Bergman’s beautifully written and filmed look at one man’s nostalgic journey into the past.
Wild Strawberries is a film that will make you feel like you’re on a journey through time and space. With stunning photography and a powerful performance from Sjstrm, this movie is a must-see for anyone who loves a good story. Bergman’s unyielding moral precision is on full display here, and the verdict is clear: loneliness. But don’t worry, you won’t be lonely while watching this film – you’ll be surrounded by the warmth and beauty of one of Bergman’s finest works. So grab some popcorn, settle in, and get ready for a wild ride through the world of Wild Strawberries!
Production Company(ies)
Svensk Filmindustri
Distributor
Video Yesteryear, Janus Films, Criterion Collection
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Dalarö, Stockholms län, Sweden
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
Year of Release
1959
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Mono
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Aspect ratio:1.37 : 1
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Runtime:1h 30m
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Language(s):Swedish, Latin
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 22, 1959 Original
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 12, 2002
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $14,524
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $167,688
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,960
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 18,287
US/Canada gross: NA
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
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Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): NA
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
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Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
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Ingrid Thulin – Marianne Borg
Bibi Andersson – Sara
Gunnar Björnstrand – Dr. Evald Borg
Jullan Kindahl – Agda
Folke Sundquist – Anders
Director(s)
Ingmar Bergman
Writer(s)
Ingmar Bergman
Producer(s)
Allan Ekelund
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
18 wins & 4 nominations total
Academy Awards
All Critics (47) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (3)
Gunnar Fischer’s photography becomes ever more luminous and Sjstrm’s performance grows in greatness.
July 23, 2013 | Rating: 4/5
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
It’s a personal and profound work.
March 26, 2009
Variety Staff
Variety
TOP CRITIC
With unyielding moral precision no less austere for the lack of any religious conviction behind it, Bergman subjects his protagonist to judgment for the crimes of indifference and selfishness, and pronounces a verdict of “the usual” sentence: loneliness.
October 29, 2008 | Rating: A
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films
TOP CRITIC
An archetypal Ingmar Bergman film, and one of his best.
July 9, 2007
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
One of Bergman’s warmest, and therefore finest films.
January 26, 2006
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
March 4, 2004 | Rating: 5/5
Nell Minow
Movie Mom
TOP CRITIC
One of Bergman’s best in a six-decade-long career littered with masterpieces.
September 22, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Michael J. Casey
Michael J. Cinema
An eerie, felicitous opportunism steered this film — just enough Freudian bitters, modern marriage, supernatural overcast, and “smashingly beautiful” postcards to provide a full matinee of culture for the expanding middlebrow-highbrow audience.
September 15, 2021
Manny Farber
The New Leader
Wild Strawberries is a simple film on paper but on screen it is a meditative look at one man’s life.
April 1, 2021
Sarah Brinks
Battleship Pretension
A celebration of the power of actors to create rich personalities for us to spend time with.
August 30, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
Tim Brayton
Alternate Ending
Wild Strawberries is to my mind a far more complete and interesting film than the much over- praised Seventh Seal, for the simple reason that it says something negative.
July 16, 2018
Isabel Quigly
The Spectator
Bergman understands one of the most bittersweet characteristics of nostalgia: it juxtaposes our memories, in which everyone is young and healthy, and the inevitable reality of physical decline that followed. [Full review in Portuguese.]
September 20, 2016 | Rating: 5/5
Pablo Villaça
Cinema em Cena…
Plot
With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they encounter almost mirror his own, including hitchhikers Sara, Viktor and Anders – who remind him of his cousin Sara who he was going to marry, himself and his irresponsible brother Sigfrid who Sara eventually married – a bickering married couple Sten and Berit Alman, and Marianne and her husband and Isak’s son Evald, whose marriage is as strained as was his own.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Max von Sydow, one of Ingmar Bergman’s favorite actors, has a cameo in the film as a gas station owner who reminds the protagonist of the good he has done in his life.
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