The central character in Wild Strawberries is the elderly Professor Isak Borg (played by acclaimed Swedish silent star and film director Victor Sjöström), who travels from his home in Stockholm to the University of Lund in order to accept an honorary doctorate. As he put it, when he wrote Wild Strawberries, 'I tried to put myself in my father's place and sought explanations for the bitter quarrels with my mother.' When the film was made, it was a time of crisis for Bergman: He had recently separated from his third wife, he had been hospitalized for several months due to a nagging stomach ulcer, and he was, in his own words, 'feuding bitterly' with his parents. Wild Strawberries was Bergman's 18th feature film in just over a decade as a film director, and it followed after the enormous international success of The Seventh Seal (1957). It is of little surprise that Bergman used it as the starting place for his 1990 memoirs, Images, which he wrote at the age of 70, and in which he noted, after having screening 40 of his films over the course of a year, 'I suddenly realized that my movies had mostly been conceived in the depths of my soul, in my heart, my brain, my nerves, my sex, and not the least, in my guts.' Simply put, Bergman put the whole of his being into his filmmaking, which is why his body of work has had such lasting historical and aesthetic impact on the cinema. Like all of his films, Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries ( Smultronstället) is a deeply personal work.

Isak Borg), Bibi Andersson (Sara), Ingrid Thulin (Marianne Borg), Gunnar Björnstrand (Evald Borg), Jullan Kindahl (Agda), Folke Sundquist (Anders), Björn Bjelfvenstam (Viktor), Naima Wifstrand (Isak's Mother), Gunnel Broström (Mrs.

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