In the Presence of a Clown

In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.

Genre:

Drama, TV Movie

Duration:

119 min

Cast:

Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson

Quality:

HD

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Release:

1998

Country:

Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden

Rating:

7.0