Sunday's Children

1992 film

28 August 1992 (1992-08-28)

Running time

118 minutesCountrySwedenLanguageSwedish

Sunday's Children (Swedish: Söndagsbarn) is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Daniel Bergman and written by Ingmar Bergman. At the 28th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Cinematography (Tony Forsberg) and Thommy Berggren was nominated for Best Actor.^[1]

Ingmar based his screenplay for Sunday's Children on the life of his father, Church of Sweden minister Erik Bergman. Author Geoffrey MacNab wrote that whereas Ingmar's recollections of Erik are damning in his 1982 film Fanny and Alexander, his 1991–92 study of his father is "far more forgiving" in The Best Intentions and Sunday's Children.^[2] Critic Vincent Canby also identified Sunday's Children as "a continuation" of Fanny and Alexander and The Best Intentions.^[3]

Cast

Thommy Berggren – Erik Bergman
Henrik Linnros – Pu Bergman (young version)
Per Myrberg - Pu Bergman (adult version/Ingmar Bergman)
Lena Endre – Karin Bergman
Jacob Leygraf – Dag
Anna Linnros – Lillan
Malin Ek – Märta
Marie Richardson – Marianne
Irma Christenson – Aunt Emma
Birgitta Valberg – Grandmother
Börje Ahlstedt – Uncle Carl
Maria Bolme – Maj
Majlis Granlund – Lalla
Birgitta Ulfsson – Lalla
Carl Magnus Dellow – Watchmaker
Melinda Kinnaman – Blind girl

Year-end lists

6th – Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times^[4]
Top 10 (listed alphabetically, not ranked) – Jimmy Fowler, Dallas Observer^[5]
Top 10 (not ranked) – Howie Movshovitz, The Denver Post^[6]

References

^ "Söndagsbarn (1992)". Swedish Film Institute. 22 March 2014.
^ Macnab, Geoffrey (2009). Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of the Last Great European Director. London and New York: I.B.Tauris. p. 210. ISBN 978-0230801387.
^ Canby, Vincent (3 April 1993). "Review/Film Festival; A Bergman Memoir By Son and Father". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
^ Turan, Kenneth (25 December 1994). "1994: YEAR IN REVIEW : No Weddings, No Lions, No Gumps". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
^ Zoller Seitz, Matt (12 January 1995). "Personal best From a year full of startling and memorable movies, here are our favorites". Dallas Observer.
^ Movshovitz, Howie (25 December 1994). "Memorable Movies of '94 Independents, fringes filled out a lean year". The Denver Post (Rockies ed.). p. E-1.