Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton). Ingmar Bergman, 1953.
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Edition screened: Included in Artificial Eye Blu-ray box set Classic Bergman, released 2012; also included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. Swedish language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 92 minutes.
Summary: There are brief comments among the circus members that the bear should be shot. Later we see the owner approach a cage with a pistol and see him fire. There is no visual or audio depiction of a dying or dead bear.
Sawdust and Tinsel and The Rite share disc #18 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Centerpiece 2’), along with a short 2003 introduction to Sawdust and Tinsel by Bergman with Marie Nyreröd.
