Autumn Sonata (1978) on Netflix
Concert pianist Charlotte Andergast travels to her daughter Eva's parsonage, where Eva lives with husband Viktor and cares for her disabled sister Helena. The two have not met in seven years.
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Charlotte Andergast built her life around a career as a concert pianist, and that career kept her far from her children. Her partner Leonardo has died, and her daughter Eva, a former journalist, invites her to stay at the parsonage where Eva lives with her husband Viktor, a village minister; mother and daughter have not met in seven years. Eva plays the piano, has written two books and looks after Helena, the disabled sister she brought home from the hospital two years ago. Eva also carries the death of her son Erik, who drowned before his fourth birthday. When Charlotte arrives, Helena is living in the house as well.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Autumn Sonata (1978)
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- Autumn Sonata was the first and only collaboration between Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman, and the two were not related.
- Ingmar Bergman made Autumn Sonata, shot in Norway with British and American backing, during one of the darkest spells of his life: he had gone into voluntary exile in Munich in 1976 after being accused of evading tax on film income.
- The piano playing seen on screen is not Ingrid Bergman's: the hands are those of pianist Käbi Laretei, who performed Chopin's Prelude No. 2 in A minor for the film.
- Autumn Sonata was the last of Ingmar Bergman's films made for theatrical exhibition; every film he made after it, even those shown in cinemas, was a television production.
