BERGMAN ISLAND follows a couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the fascination for the island operates on Chris and souvenirs of her first love resurface. Lines between reality and fiction will then progressively blur and tear our couple even more apart.
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
They saw each other once. On the wedding. Their eyes met. This is it. This, what they never knew, this, what they can't understand, realize, happened. Now they can't live, breath without each other. As if powerful river stream, strong cosmic magnet with irresistible power tempts, attracts, pulls them to each other. They don't belong to themselves, family and friends no more. She lived with her husband. He was older, she is still young and pretty. They have little daughter and angry dog. Did they have love?
And somewhere he lived with a burnt, like a steppe grass, mop of flaxen hair and penetrating blue as sky in the south eyes. "What to do now? - I don't know." He knows. Husband. He is not angry or silly. He is such as he is. He is just living. What to do, when dog bitted off the daughter's finger? To cut off finger, to kill the dog. What to do, when wife is leaving home? To burn the house. What to do, when she is leaving for someone else? He also knows…
Cast: Poļina Agurejeva, Mihails Okuņevs, Maksims Ušakovs
Directed by Ivans Viripajevs