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Shame is a film of genre Drama directed by Ingmar Bergman released in USA on 23 december 1968 with Liv Ullmann
Shame (1968)
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Add to a movie listShame (Swedish: Skammen) is a 1968 Swedish black-and-white film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow. The film explores shame, stress, jealousy, self-loathing and anxiety through a politically unaware couple attempting to flee a war-ravaged European nation. Parts of Shame would be addressed in characters' dreams in Bergman's later film, The Passion of Anna.
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The story follows a husband and wife (Jan and Eva) who, as a result of civil war, have moved away from society to a farm on a rural island. Their response to war has been escapist and they are mostly living in isolation (their radio and telephone do not work).Actors
Liv Ullmann
(Eva Rosenberg)
Max von Sydow
(Jan Rosenberg)
Gunnar Björnstrand
(Mr. Jacobi)
Sigge Fürst
(Filip)
Ulf Johanson
(Doctor)
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