---
title: 'Autumn Sonata (1978)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ingmar Bergman'
released: '1978-10-08'
runtime_minutes: 93
certification: 'PG'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Norway'
  - 'Germany'
  - 'France'
  - 'Sweden'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/autumn-sonata-1978'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077711/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Autumn Sonata (1978)

1978 · PG · 93 min · Drama · Norway, Germany, France, Sweden

Original title: Höstsonaten

## Synopsis

Autumn Sonata is a 1978 psychological drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. Its plot follows a celebrated classical pianist and her neglected daughter who meet for the first time in years, and chronicles their painful discussions of how they have hurt each other. It was the first and only collaboration between Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman .Autumn Sonata was the last of Ingmar Bergman's films to be made for theatrical exhibition; all of his films made after it, even those screened in theatres, were television productions.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ingmar Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingmar-bergman)
- **Screenplay:** [Ingmar Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingmar-bergman)
- **Producer:** [Ingmar Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingmar-bergman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Frédéric Chopin](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederic-chopin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Sven Nykvist](https://cinepixo.com/people/sven-nykvist)
- **Editor:** [Sylvia Ingemarsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/sylvia-ingemarsson)

## Cast

- [Erland Josephson](https://cinepixo.com/people/erland-josephson)
- [Mimi Pollak](https://cinepixo.com/people/mimi-pollak)
- [Marianne Aminoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/marianne-aminoff)
- [Eva von Hanno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-von-hanno)
- [Halvar Björk](https://cinepixo.com/people/halvar-bjork)
- [Liv Ullmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/liv-ullmann)
- [Ingrid Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingrid-bergman)
- [Gunnar Björnstrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/gunnar-bjornstrand)
- [Linn Ullmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/linn-ullmann)
- [Lena Nyman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lena-nyman)
- [Georg Løkkeberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-l-kkeberg)

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