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Sequel:

Faro Document 1979 (TV)

Original title

Fårödokument 1969

Year

1970

Running time

58 min.

Country

Sweden

Director

Ingmar Bergman

Screenwriter

Ingmar Bergman

Cast

Cinematography

Sven Nykvist (B&W)

Producer

Cinematograph AB

Genre

Documentary | Small Town Life (Non-North American). TV Movie. Half-length Film

Synopsis

Fårö Document is Ingmar Bergman's first documentary. Having recently built a house on the island in the Baltic he was taken by the people who lived there and felt the need to document their everyday lives. The film was shown on Swedish television to great acclaim. Ten years later Bergman would make a follow-up: "Fårö Document 1979".

Bergman had discovered the bleak, windswept island of Fårö while scouting locations for Through a Glass Darkly in 1960. Nearly a decade later, and after shooting a number of arresting dramas there, the director set out to pay tribute to the inhabitants of Fårö. In Fårö Document, shot on handheld 16 mm by the peerless Sven Nykvist, Bergman interviews a variety of locals, in the process laying bare the generational divide between young residents eager to leave the island and older folk more deeply rooted in bucolic tradition. The film revealed Bergman to be a sensitive and masterly documentarian.

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