After the Rehearsal

After the Rehearsal
Directed by	Ingmar Bergman
Produced by	Jörn Donner
Written by	Ingmar Bergman
Starring	Erland Josephson Ingrid Thulin Lena Olin Nadja Palmstjerna-Weiss Bertil Guve
Cinematography	Sven Nykvist
Release date	9 April 1984
Running time	70 min
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

After the Rehearsal (Swedish: Efter repetitionen) is a television film, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. The script contains numerous quotes from Strindberg's A Dream Play. The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother (now dead), an alcoholic actress who was Vogler's star and lover. Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment. He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.

(Tartan DVD release of this film erroneously lists "Liv Ullmann" as one of the three main stars. Ullmann is not in this film)

After the Rehearsal received strongly positive reviews from critics, garnering a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Vincent Canby wrote that it "may well be another Bergman classic."Roger Ebert gave it a full four stars and argued that the work "consists of unadorned surfaces concealing fathomless depths."

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