Through A Glass Darkly

The first in Bergman's trilogy of films examining man's futile search for God (followed by WINTER LIGHT and THE SILENCE) stars Andersson as a young schizophrenic recently released from a mental institution who spends the summer with her family in an isolated cabin on the Baltic coast. Her father, Bjornstrand, is a writer who studies his disturbed daughter with a cold, intellectual detachment that only makes her condition worse. Her husband, von Sydow, is a doctor but is unable to assist in her recovery. Passgard, Andersson's brother, is a youth on the verge of sexual awakening, and he, too, is occupied with his own troubled thoughts and emotions. Soon Andersson is ...