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Svensk Filmindustri
Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (an astonishing Harriet Andersson) discovers her father (Gunnar Björnstrand) has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary ends. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, Karin’s father, her husband (Max von Sydow), and her younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent her descent into the abyss of mental illness. Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film, Through a Glass Darkly, the first work in Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy on faith and its loss (to be followed by Winter Light and The Silence), presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by the intangibility of God’s presence.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Swedish PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Introduction, Audio Interview, Booklet
- Introduction for Bergman's Trilogy by director Ingmar Bergman
- Exploring Bergman's Trilogy: Video discussions with Ingmar Bergman biographer Peter Cowie
- Interview from 2012 with actor Harriet Andersson
- Audio interview from 1962 with actor Gunnar Björnstrand
- Illustrated audio interview with cinematographer Sven Nykvist, recorded in 1981
- Original theatrical trailer for Through a Glass Darkly
- An essay by film scholar Catherine Wheatley and an excerpt from Bergman’s 1987 autobiography, The Magic Lantern
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Release Notes on Restoration
Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and The Silence are presented in their original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. These new 2K digital restorations were undertaken by the Swedish Film Institute. New digital transfers were created on a Scanity film scanner from the 35 mm original camera negative of Winter Light and 35 mm interpositives of Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence. The original monaural soundtracks were remastered from the 35 mm optical tracks.