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The Rite (Swedish: Riten) is a 1969 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.It premiered on Swedish television on 25 March 1969. Actors Thea (Ingrid Thulin), Sebastian and Hans (Gunnar Björnstrand) are sequestered in the offices of Judge Abrahamson (), who questions them about the play they have been performing, which has been accused of being obscene.
The Rite: Directed by Ingmar Bergman. With Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erik Hell. A theatre troupe is called to court because of obscene performance material and an interrogation ensues, which causes them to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
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- Drama
- Ingmar Bergman
- 1969-09-18
The Rite. Ingmar Bergman conceived this experimental work as a response to his controversial tenure at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Focusing on four characters—a trio of actors charged with obscenity (Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Anders Ek), and the judge assigned to try them (Erik Hell)— The Rite alternates between criminal ...
- Thea Winkelmann
Like that particular film, The Rite (1969) is a carefully structured drama built around a small cast of characters warring with one another in a close and claustrophobic environment that stresses ...
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- Drama
- Ingmar Bergman
The film was made for Swedish television, on a modest budget (it was shot in just nine days), and broadcast in March 1969. Whilst the ambiguous nature of the plot and characters is somewhat frustrating, making it initially appear much more opaque and intellectually demanding that it actually is, The Rite is a strangely tense and compelling film ...
- Ingmar Bergman
Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's wife. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, growing tired.
The Rite is a 1969 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It premiered on Swedish television on 25 March 1969. Actors Thea , Sebastian and Hans are sequestered in the offices of Judge Abrahamson , who questions them about the play they have been performing, which has been accused of being obscene. As the judge interviews them separately and together, the three performers ...
