

Face to Face
A woman's most intimate encounter with the one person she didn't know. Herself.
A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)
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- Language
- Swedish
- loss of sense of reality
- suicide attempt
- psychological stress
- hallucination
- mental breakdown
- childhood trauma
- dysfunctional marriage
- rape attempt
- dead parents
- reality vs fantasy
- repressed trauma
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical5 Apr 1976
FranceFR
- Theatrical8 Sept 1976
GermanyDE
- Theatrical20 May 1976
JapanJP
- TheatricalR18+27 Jun 1982
SwedenSE
- TVTV premiere28 Apr 1976
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Face to Face was released on 5 April 1976.
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CRCulver
7/31/2018
Shot in 1975, originally for Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman's film ANSIKTE MOT ANSIKTE (Face to Face) explores the idea of a psychiatrist herself struggling with mental illness. As the film opens, Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullmann) is standing in an empty house, her family having removed everything in preparation for a move into a new house later that year. In the meantime, her husband is working in America for …
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