After the Rehearsal

• Erland Josephson: Henrik Vogler
• Ingrid Thulin: doctor Egerman
• Lena Olin: Anna Egerman
• Bertil Guve: Henrik Vogler ( young)

After the sample ( original title Efter repetitions ) is a Swedish- German TV film by Ingmar Bergman in the year 1983.

Action

The aging theater director, Henrik Vogler studied a performance from August Strindberg's drama A Dream Play. After the trial he hangs his thoughts. Anna Egerman, the young protagonist of the play, returns a pretext the theater. There ensues a dialogue, during which Anna speaks of her dislike of her deceased mother on her alcoholism doctor. Doctor was Henrik's former lover and star of his productions. Past and present, reality and fantasy mix together: Squeegee occurs trying to seduce Henrik. When he refuses, she falls into a bitter indictment of her husband, her daughter Anna and Henrik. After leaving the doctor blade Henrik and Anna continue their conversation. Anna tells about her relationship and shattering her abortion, she might her boyfriend, maybe her career 's sake has had to make. Together paint Henrik and they result from how the relationship would develop between them if they would engage in an affair of the cautious beginnings over short passions and jealousy to fracture after the premiere. About their conversation Anna has forgotten their sample appointment with a radio broadcast; she leaves the theater, Henrik falls back into his musings.

Background

After the sample was in the " Filmhuset studios" the Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm. Bergman described the shooting as " listless " because he had the same trouble with two of his long -time regular performer, Erland Josephson and Ingrid Thulin. His dissatisfaction with the results prompted him to cut the finished film for twenty minutes for 72 minutes run time. After the sample was also the last joint film with his longtime cinematographer Sven Nykvist.

Bergman had announced that his film Fanny and Alexander ( 1982) should be his last movie. The exclusively produced for television after the sample ran out of competition at the International Film Festival in Cannes in 1984, at the Munich Film Festival. The film was aired on 9 April 1984 on Swedish television and on 22 April 1985 in Germany on ZDF. As producer Jörn Donner had sold the theatrical exhibition rights to the U.S. lender Triumph Films, this was shown in spite of Bergman's protest in the U.S. in the cinema.

Parallels in Bergman's work

The name Vogler and Egerman Bergman used in previous films, so among other things in the face. There, Mrs. Egerman tried their host Mr. Vogler to seduce the head of the " magnetic healing theater ".

Reviews

" Although a pure dialogue piece with a single action location, a masterful ( TV ) Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With the simplest of means complicated relationships and even different time levels are seemingly light touch and unpretentious compacted into a psychologically profound reflection on the theater, the roles, the relationships between the actors and their director, between art and life. "