From The Life Of The Marionettes

Peter and Katarina to all appearances live a harmonious and well-adjusted life – he is a businessman, she is a designer – but their’s is a marriage where neither can reach each other. He is a dreamer and searcher, she is the stronger of the two who at times seeks deliberately to humiliate him.Peter has a dream in which he reaches his wife with his feelings. In the very moment where he experiences a total sense of possession he realizes his wife is dead. He looks up a psychiatrist friend, Mogens, tells him the dream and confesses that he is obsessed with the idea of murdering his wife.After a half-hearted suicide attempt Peter goes to a porno club. A prostitute triggers his impulse to commit murder. She – Ka, an outsider – becomes the victim of his mental blackout and not his wife Katarina.
From The Life Of The Marionettes
Title From The Life Of The Marionettes
Original title Ur Marionetternas Liv
Director Ingmar Bergman
Country Sweden
Film status Completed
Original language Swedish
Cast Robert Atzorn, Martin Benrath, Christine Buchegger, Rita Russek
Script Ingmar Bergman
Production company Bavaria Film
Release 1980 Nov, 03
Duration 101 min
Title From The Life Of The Marionettes
Original title Ur Marionetternas Liv
Director Ingmar Bergman
Country Sweden
Film status Completed
Original language Swedish
Cast Robert Atzorn, Martin Benrath, Christine Buchegger, Rita Russek
Script Ingmar Bergman
Production company Bavaria Film
Release 1980 Nov, 03
Duration 101 min
Genre: Drama
