Wild Strawberries (1957)
Bergman's 1957 Swedish drama. An aging professor's day-long road trip to accept an honorary degree.
Victor Sjöström was a major silent film director in Sweden and Hollywood, making The Wind and The Phantom Carriage, before Bergman cast him as the elderly professor in Wild Strawberries. The performance, made at seventy-eight, is a summation of a career that had shaped Swedish cinema from its beginning.