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The Best Intentions
Biography film with a runtime of 182 minutes, released in 1992. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille August while the film was in progress) is from a well-to-do family. Despite the expected class differences and personality clashes, love-or at least mutual understanding-prevails. But after a harsh, spare few years as the wife of a clergyman, Anna yearns for the more bountiful pleasures of her family home. Bergman writes himself into the proceedings as a mewling infant. The current three-hour theatrical version of Best Intentions (original title: Den Goda Viljan) was simultaneously prepared as a six-hour TV miniseries, which ran in Europe, Scandanavia, and Japan.
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Cast
- Samuel Fröler
- Pernilla August
- Max von Sydow
- Ghita Nørby
- Lennart Hjulström
- Mona Malm
- Lena Endre
- Keve Hjelm
- Björn Kjellman
- Börje Ahlstedt
- Björn Granath
- Gunilla Nyroos
- Inga Ã…lenius
- Mikael Segerstrom
- Eva Grondahl
- Margaretha Krook
- Irma Christensson
- Sif Ruud
- Lena Brogren
- Cecilia Lagerkvist
- Dan Johansson
- Niklas Hald
- Ernst-Hugo Järegård
- Hans Alfredson
- Lena T. Hansson
- Marie Göranzon
- Björn Gustafson
- Roland Hedlund
- Elias Ringkvist
- Margareta Krook
- Leif Forstenberg
- Sara Arnia
- Boel Larsson
- Inga-Lill Ellung
- Gun Jonsson
- Ernst Gunther
- Marie Rickardson
- Emy Storm
- Barbro Kollberg
- Inga Landgré
- Inga Alenius
- Tomas Bolme
- Mikael Bengtsson
- Pia Bergendahl
- Kare Santesson
- Max Winderal
- Jan Blomberg
- Anita Björk
- Ake Lagergren
- Bertil Norstrom
- Gaby Stenberg
- Gösta Prüzelius
- Puck Ahlsell
- Nils Eklund
- Tord Peterson
- Ingmar Bergman
- Ann Mari Anttila
- Janus Billeskov Jansen
- Jörgen Persson
- Ingrid Dahlberg
- Kjell Gustavsson
- Anna Asp
