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Wild Strawberries Overview:

Wild Strawberries (1957) was a Foreign Films - Film directed by Ingmar Bergman and produced by Allan Ekelund.

Academy Awards 1959 --- Ceremony Number 32 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best WritingIngmar BergmanNominated
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Wild Strawberries BlogHub Articles:

Wild Strawberries (1957, Ingmar Bergman)

By Andrew Wickliffe on Jul 8, 2017 From The Stop Button

Wild Strawberries is about a septuagenarian doctor (Victor Sjöström) being awarded an honorary degree. Sjöström’s narration sets it up in the first scene, before the opening titles. Director Bergman’s script, through the narration, lays out the entire ground situation before the titles, in f... Read full article

Wild Strawberries (1957)

By Beatrice on Jun 8, 2016 From Flickers in Time

Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) Directed by Ingmar Bergman Written by Ingmar Bergman 1957/Sweden Svensk Filmindustri Repeat viewing/Netflix rental #334 of 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die I have loved this every time I have seen it.  And every time I see it, it seems like a different... Read full article

Top 250 Tuesday #066 – Wild Strawberries (1957)

By Michael on Apr 15, 2014 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #066 on the list, Ingmar Bergman‘s Wild Strawberries. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I&#82... Read full article

Top 250 Tuesday #066 – Wild Strawberries (1957)

By Michael on Apr 15, 2014 From Durnmoose Movie Musings

Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #066 on the list, Ingmar Bergman‘s Wild Strawberries. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I&#82... Read full article

Wild Strawberries (1957)

By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 12, 2013 From 4 Star Films

Directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Victor Sjostrom, the film follows an elderly doctor who travels by car to receive an honorary degree. Over the course of the day the old man has strange dreams and he also reminisces about his summers as a child with his family. He travels with his daughter in... Read full article

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Wild Strawberries Quotes:

Marianne Borg: All along the line, there's nothing but cold and death and loneliness
Sara: Good-bye, father Isak. Can't you see you're the one I love? Today, tomorrow and forever
Isak Borg: I'll keep that in mind
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Wild Strawberries Facts
According to the Swedish DVD release (which contains an introductory interview with Bergman himself), Ingmar Bergman wrote the movie with Victor Sjöström in mind. He and the production company agreed that there would be no movie without Sjöström. Bergman didn't dare to call his idol Sjöström himself about the movie thou, so the head of Swedish movie industry made the call. Sjöström was initially reluctant, due to his high age, but agreed to meet with Bergman to discuss the movie. So Bergman went to his apartment and talked about it, Sjöström said he'll think about it.The next morning Sjöström called and agreed on the part on one condition. As long as Bergman promised Sjöström that he'd be able to come home and have his whiskey grog at 5 pm every day, he would do the movie.
Ingmar Bergman has described in the interview how he came up with the idea while driving from Stockholm to Dalarna, stopping in Uppsala where he had been born and raised, and driving by outside his grandmother's old house, when he suddenly began to think about how it would be if he could open the door and inside it would be just as it had been during his childhood. "So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives. That was actually the idea behind Smultronstället"
The dummy that Isak Borg mistakes for a pedestrian during the dream sequence was constructed from a balloon and a silk stocking.
Final screen appearance of Victor Sjöström.
Ingmar Bergman wrote the script while he was in hospital.
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