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In the Presence of a Clown is a film of genre Drama directed by Ingmar Bergman released in USA on 1 october 1998 with Erland Josephson

In the Presence of a Clown (1998)

In the Presence of a Clown
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Released in USA 1 october 1998
Length 1h59
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romance
Rating68% 3.445583.445583.445583.445583.44558

In the Presence of a Clown (Swedish: Larmar och gör sig till) is a television film by Ingmar Bergman, and was recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of a man named Carl, who is a professor and a mental patient sentenced to a mental ward for attempted murder. In the hospital he is in, he befriends another person, Osvald, and they attempt the making and promoting of a film.

The film was a production for Sveriges Television of Bergman's 1994 play with the same title.

Synopsis

Le film s'ouvre sur une citation de Shakespeare, dans Macbeth: « La vie n'est qu'un fantôme errant, un pauvre comédien qui s'agite et se pavane une heure sur scène et qu'ensuite on n'entend plus » (S'agite et se pavane étant le titre du texte écrit par Bergman en 1993, qui a par la suite été adapté en téléfilm sous le titre En présence d'un clown).

Actors

Erland Josephson

(Osvald Vogler)
Börje Ahlstedt

(Uncle Carl Åkerblom)
Marie Richardson

(Pauline Thibualt)
Pernilla August

(Karin Bergman)
Anita Björk

(Anna Åkerblom)
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