The Passion of Anna (En passion). Ingmar Bergman, 1969.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 101 minutes.
Summary: Sub-plot of animal murders and cruelty.
Summary: Sub-plot of animal murders and cruelty.
Details:
1) Max von Sydow finds and rescues a puppy who has been hanged by his neck and left for dead, 15:20-15:35. He take the puppy home, and the puppy is fine.
2) We are amidst the bodies of a nearly a dozen sheep who have been murdered and mutilated, 50:17-51:44. The scene ends with the sheep being pulled into a mass grave.
3) Ullmann and von Sydow find an unconscious young bird at 1:07:04. They decide to euthanize it. Von Sydow smashes its head with a small rock off screen, and we see Ullmann bury it. Through 1:07:55 they are washing blood off their hands and sharing remorse.
4) At 1:35:05 a barn is on fire. We hear animals crying out and it is explained that gasoline had been poured over a horse before the fire was set. We have a 1-second shot of the dead horse at 1:35:16, and again as it is pulled up a ramp, 1:36:04.
The Passion of Anna is on disc #10 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Centerpiece 1’), along with Shame.
