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Encyclopedia > Shame (film)

Skammen (Swedish for Shame), is a 1968 black-and-white film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow. 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Black-and-white (or variations including Black and White) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman   listen? (pronounced in Swedish, but usually in English, IPA in Unicode notation) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century. ... Ullman with Roger Moore and Sacheen Littlefeather at the Academy Awards in 1973. ... Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless Max Carl Adolf von Sydow   listen? (born on April 10, 1929) is a Swedish actor, known in particular for his collaboraton with Ingmar Bergman. ...


The story follows two musicians, who, as a result of civil war, have moved away from society to a farm on a rural island. They are apolitical and indifferent to the war. Although they are in love, Jan (Sydow) is very sensitive and cries frequently. Eva (Ulmann) does not like his sensitivity, but puts up with it. The war eventually catches up with them, however...


The film was shot on location on the small island Fårö, just north of the island Gotland, outside Sweden's south-east coast. It had a budget of SEK 2,800,000. FÃ¥rö is a small island just to the north of the island of Gotland. ...   Gotland? is the largest island in the Baltic Sea. ... This article is about the Swedish unit of currency. ...


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A Dirty Shame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (126 words)
A Dirty Shame is a 2004 film by Baltimore, Maryland filmmaker John Waters starring Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Isaak, Mink Stole, Suzanne Shepherd, Patricia Hearst, Susan Allenbach, Wes Johnson and Jackie Hoffman.
The, film rated NC-17, was a return to style of the sexually raunchy films of his early pre-hollywood years, such as Pink Flamingos.
It was filmed on-location in Baltimore on Harford Road, which is prominently featured in the movie.
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This film features Bergman veterans Von Sydow and Ullmann as ordinary people who are turned into refugees by a ferocious war in which they get caught.
The film presents a harrowing landscape of hell on earth that ends in a climax that will inevitably remind you of "Titanic", although Bergman did it first.
This is one of the key films of the decade, and still an unsettling and lasting experience.
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