Product Details

• Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Ulf Palme, Inga Landgré
• Directors: Ingmar Bergman
• Format: NTSC, Black & White, HiFi Sound, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Embassy Home Entertainment
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0011WUJHU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,182 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In Stockholm, the fashion photographer Susanne Frank misses her married lover Henrik Lobelius that lives in Gothenburg with his wife and children, and the naive twenty years old model Doris has a troubled relationship with her boy friend Palle Palt. Susanne schedules a session of photo shoots in Gothenburg with Doris, and once there, she calls Henrik for an encounter. Meanwhile, Doris meets an elegant middle age gentleman on the street, the Consul Otto Sönderby, who buys expensive gifts for her: a dress, a pair of Italian gloves and valuable pearl necklace. They spend the afternoon together in an amusement park and later they go to Otto's mansion, where they are interrupted by his wicked daughter Marianne. Susanne has a love affair with Henrik in her room, but they are interrupted by his cynical wife. The incidents in these encounters affect their perspective of love. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars INGMAR BERGMAN, OPUS 15, April 29, 2008

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Daniel S. "Daniel" (Geneva, Switzerland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreams (Kvinnodrom) (VHS Tape)

*** 1955. Written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Two women in search for happiness. Susanne is still in love with the married man she left seven months before and Doris meets an old and wealthy man who offers her whatever she wants. Apart of Eva Dahlbeck's performance, I liked the way Bergman differentiates the two stories; long close-ups and extensive dialogues for Eva Dahlbeck's scenes and, on the contrary, fast-paced scenes, just think of the scenes in the amusement park, in the Harriet Andersson's story. For Bergman completists.

4.0 out of 5 stars "Our sadness weighs down the film...", April 14, 2008

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Galina (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dreams (Kvinnodrom) (VHS Tape)

Ingmar Bergman's early film Dreams (1955), beautiful but sadly underrated and little known, presents the stories about two dissimilar women and their loves, and touches on all the timeless and tough realities of torment, longing, loneliness, and aging in a simple and sublime way. Everyone who ever was madly and desperately in love and for some reasons could not be with the object of their longing should appreciate this film. Speaking of making Dreams, Ingmar Bergman comments, "By this time Harriet [Andersson] and I had terminated our relationship, and we were both feeling quite sad. Our sadness weighs down the film". Bergman regulars Harriet Andersson and Eva Dahlbeck (both will play in the same year's Smiles of a Summer Night, a very successful and sparkling Bergman's comedy) portray two women, the owner of a model agency (Dahlbeck) and her top model (Andersson). A major figure in Ingmar Bergman's films of the 1950s, Eva Dahlbeck was stunning - an elegant, poised, sophisticated classical blonde beauty with high intelligence and the talents in acting and writing.

Harriet Andersson was discovered at the age of 20 by Ingmar Bergman who made especially for her screen debut the film "Summer with Monica". Extraordinary and versatile as an actress, her roles ranged from the naive young girls with erotic charisma to the young woman losing her grip with reality in Through a glass darkly (1962) to the fearless breakthrough performance as a dying woman in Cries and Whispers. In Dreams, she is absolutely charming. Camera loved her - sexy, sweet, and innocent, she lit the screen in her every scene.