Face to Face
A woman's most intimate encounter with the one person she didn't know. Herself.
Two psychiatrists' marriage is tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
- 7.2
- 1976
- Released
- 1h 54m
Liv Ullmann
Dr. Jenny Isaksson
Erland Josephson
Dr. Tomas Jacobi
Aino Taube
Jenny's Grandmother
Gunnar Björnstrand
Jenny's Grandfather
Kristina Adolphson
Nurse Veronica
Marianne Aminoff
Jenny's Mother
Gösta Ekman
Mikael Strömberg
Helene Friberg
Anna Isaksson
Ulf Johansson
Helmuth Wankel
Sven Lindberg
Erik Isaksson
Jan-Erik Lindqvist
Jenny's Father
Birger Malmsten
Older Rapist
Sif Ruud
Elisabeth Wankel
Göran Stangertz
Younger Rapist
Mona Andersson
Patient (uncredited)
Käbi Laretei
The Concert Pianist (uncredited)
Lena Olin
Shop Assistant (uncredited)Rebecca Pawlo
Shop Assistant (uncredited)
Margareta Pettersson
Girlfriend (uncredited)
Tore Segelcke
The Woman (uncredited)
Kari Sylwan
Maria Jacobi (uncredited)
Released
sv
- #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
Reviews
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 wor