TV series
The Best Intentions
1991 · 1 season
A slow, serious period drama that feels like a novel: intimate, emotionally heavy, and quietly tense as love strains against duty and class.
- Created by
- Bille August
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Ghita Nørby
- Overview
- The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest, tense and romantic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Love, family, class, faith
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Bille August
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Ghita Nørby
