Ingmar Bergman's SHAME is a tremendously profound and unsettling film about the indignities of war. In remarkably subtle performances, Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow play a middle-class couple whose quietly honed existence is forever shattered by a mysterious civil war tearing across
their homeland.
Former concert violinists Eva and Jan Rosenberg (Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow) work and live on a small island, where they've escaped the war on the mainland. The apolitical Rosenbergs concern themselves only with selling the produce that they grow in their greenhouse. Despite ominous warnings of an
impending invasion, the couple cling to their routine and ponder their...
Released:
1968
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins