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Fårö Document

Fårö Document (Fårödokument). Ingmar Bergman, 1970.
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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 58 minutes.

Summary: Sheep slaughtering

Details:
1) Graphic documentation of sheep slaughtered and gutted on a farm, 10:20-13:50.
2) A long sequence of lambs being born, 26:16-31:04. Obviously these are not violent or abusive scenes, but we didn’t want to watch.

Fårö Document is on disc #11 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Opening Night’), along with Fårö Document 1979 and two short films, Daniel (1967) and Karin’s Face (1984).