Title: Scenes from a Marriage
Original Title: Scener ur ett äktenskap
Year: 1974
Info
- Country: Sweden
- Length: 169 Minutes (2 hours 49 min)
- Budget: $150,000
- Genre: Drama
Release Dates
- United States: September 21 1974
Plot
The film 'Scenes from a Marriage' is based on its homonymous Swedish tv series. Ingmar Bergman is again the flimmaker and writer of the film. In addition, the whole cast came back from the tv series to do the film. It chronicles the life of Marianne and Johan, a family lawyer especialices in divorce and a psychology teacher, and their marriage through many years in which we can see the development in their relationship: infidelity, divorce and subsequent partners.
It is not simply a narrative about a relationship and its ups and downs, but a film that examines topics like love, loneliness, what it means to feel fulfilled or the need of security and validation of another person.
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Trivia
Film adaptation
'Scenes from a Marriage' is in fact an adaptation based on the Swedish tv series with the same name. The filmmaker, writer and cast of the first project are the same ones of the film.
Increase in divorces
In the year of it's release, 1974, the divorce rate in Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) increased tremendously.
'Scenes from a Marriage''s legacy
The 'Scenes from a Marriage''s plot has been adapted multiple times through the decades. On the other hand, we can found many references to its narratives in several films, like Paul Mazursky's 'Scenes from a Mall', with Woody Allen in the leading role. It's a dark comedy about a deteriorating marriage.
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