In the Presence of a Clown

In the Presence of a Clown (Swedish: Larmar och gör sig till) is a television film by Ingmar Bergman, and was recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It tells the story of a man named Carl, who is a professor and a mental patient sentenced to a mental ward for attempted murder. In the hospital he is in, he befriends another person, Osvald, and they attempt the making and promoting of a film.

The film was a production for Sveriges Television of Bergman's 1994 play with the same title.

Cast

• Börje Ahlstedt – Uncle Carl Åkerblom
• Marie Richardson – Pauline Thibualt
• Erland Josephson – Osvald Vogler
• Pernilla August – Karin Bergman
• Anita Björk – Anna Åkerblom
• Agneta Ekmanner – Rigmor the clown
• Lena Endre – Märta Lundberg
• Gunnel Fred – Emma Vogler
• Gerthi Kulle – Sister Stella
• Johan Lindell – Johan Egerman
• Peter Stormare – Petrus Landahl
• Folke Asplund – Fredrik Blom
• Anna Björk – Mia Falk
• Inga Landgré – Alma Berglund
• Alf Nilsson – Stefan Larsson

References

External links

• In the Presence of a Clown at AllMovie
• In the Presence of a Clown at the Internet Movie Database
• In the Presence of a Clown at the Swedish Film Institute Database