--- title: 'Cries and Whispers (1972)' type: 'film' director: 'Ingmar Bergman' released: '1972-12-21' runtime_minutes: 90 genres: - 'Drama' - 'History' countries: - 'Sweden' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cries-and-whispers-1972' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069467/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Cries and Whispers (1972) 1972 · 90 min · Drama, History · Sweden Original title: Viskningar och rop ## Synopsis Cries and Whispers is a 1972 Swedish tragedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters confront their emotional distance from each other. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Liv Ullmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/liv-ullmann) - **Director:** [Ingmar Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingmar-bergman) - **Screenplay:** [Ingmar Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingmar-bergman) - **Original Music Composer:** [Pierre Fournier](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-fournier) - **Director of Photography:** [Sven Nykvist](https://cinepixo.com/people/sven-nykvist) ## Cast - [Liv Ullmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/liv-ullmann) - [Lena Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/lena-bergman) - [Ingrid Thulin](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingrid-thulin) - [Kari Sylwan](https://cinepixo.com/people/kari-sylwan) - [Harriet Andersson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harriet-andersson) - [Inga Gill](https://cinepixo.com/people/inga-gill) - [Linn Ullmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/linn-ullmann) - [Anders Ek](https://cinepixo.com/people/anders-ek) - [Ingrid Bergman](https://cinepixo.com/people/ingrid-bergman) - [Erland Josephson](https://cinepixo.com/people/erland-josephson) - [Georg Årlin](https://cinepixo.com/people/georg-arlin) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cries-and-whispers-1972 Film facts: Wikidata (Q830874); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.