One of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers, Ingmar BERGMAN, tells the story of a marriage in PRIVATE CONFESSIONS. Liv ULLMAN is the director of this story , which centers Anna BERGMAN, and is, indeed, based on Bergman's parents. Ingmar Bergman scripted a study of the pain and joy that accompany love as it alternately blossoms and decays. The story consists five segments, or "conversations" that take place over a 25 year period, presented in non-chronological order. As a young woman, Anna married Henrik, an earnest theology student. She finds herself stifled by his emotional needs, but only realizes the gravity of her mistake when she meets Tomas, a younger man. Their illicit affair makes her feel passionately alive, for the first time in years. But, her happiness is also her torment. Caught between the two very different worlds, she eventually turns to Jacob, her confirmation priest and an old friend she can trust. Jacob gives Anna advice that proves to have dramatic consequences, and it is there that the confessions begin.

Born December 3rd, 1922 in Moheda. Mr. Nykvist, A.S.C., 2-time Oscar winner and with more than 100 films to his credit - is one of the world's foremost cinematographers. By the time he made his first film for Ingmar Bergman, THE NAKED NIGHT (1953) he was already an experienced cinematographer. But it was THE VIRGIN SPRING that his collaboration with Bergman really began to take form. In the '60s and '70s, Nykvist photographed 18 Bergman films, including THE SILENCE (1963), PERSONA (1966), CRIES AND WHISPERS (1972) and FANNY AND ALEXANDER (1982), winning Oscars for both films.

Born 16 December 1938, Tokyo, Japan. Of Norwegian parentage, Liv spent her early years in Canada and New York before returning to Norway at the end of World War II. She studied at Webber-Douglas School in London and at the Rogalund Theater in Stavanger, making her stage debut there in the DIARY OF ANNE FRANK in 1957. Prominence in the cinema came in the films of Bergman, beginning with PERSONA (1966). She has been nominated several times for an Oscar as Best Actress and has won the American Film Critics' prize four years in a row. On the stage, she has played a number of major roles in Norway, Sweden, England (London's West End) and the USA (Los Angeles and Broadway). In 1992 Liv ULLMAN made her first feature film SOPHIE as director, which received 3 of the main prizes at the festival in Montreal. In 1996 she scripted and directed her second film KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER. Liv ULLMAN has been UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador for 15 years. In 1976 she published her autobiographical book "Changing" and in 1984 the second book "Tide".

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