Synopsis
Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap, 1973), Season 1 is Ingmar Bergman's drama you can watch online on iFILM — six episodes that almost never leave a few rooms, because the whole story is two people talking through what broke between them.
Johan and Marianne look like the model couple at their tenth anniversary. Then he comes home and admits an affair with a woman named Paula, and he leaves. The chapters that follow track the separation, a brutal fight over the divorce papers, and the awkward way the two keep circling back to each other. Bergman films the quiet mechanics of a collapse rather than the collapse itself — what went unsaid, what each of them still grips. Every episode is one scene from twenty years together.
Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson play it so close to the nerve it's almost uncomfortable to watch. Not a show for background noise; it asks for silence and attention, and it stays with you. Stream Scenes from a Marriage Season 1 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S1·E1Innocence and Panic
The story begins around Marianne's and Johan's 10th anniversary, when a reporter for a women's magazine interviews them. Peter and Katarina visit later for dinner, and cruelly humiliate one another.
S1·E2The Art of Sweeping Things Under the Rug
Marianne tries to withdraw from a Sunday dinner with her parents but fails and realizes how difficult it is for her to let down other people's expectations. Johan flirts with another woman at work.
S1·E3Paula
Johan came home unexpectedly and told Marianne that he'd been in a love affair with someone named Paula. After his declaration of breaking away from the past, and Marianne's failing to detain him, Johan drove away.
S1·E4The Vale of Tears
Johan is disillusioned with Paula and revisits Marianne. They discuss their current lives and Johan attempts to initiate sex, but Marianne is unwilling. He attempts to spend the night but cannot sleep and leaves.
S1·E5The Illiterates
Marianne and Johan meet at his office to sign divorce papers, but Johan refuses. The two fight savagely. Johan declares that they are emotional illiterates. They sign the papers.
S1·E6In the Middle of the Night in a Dark House Somewhere in the World
Marianne and Johan have married other people, but are unhappy. Having met coincidentally in a theatre some time earlier, they have begun secretly seeing each other again. On the 20th anniversary of their wedding, they decide to spend time together at their country house. Finding that too strange, they go to a friend's country house instead. There they discuss how much they have changed, with Marianne more self-conscious and Johan accepting his real abilities. When Marianne awakes panicking from a nightmare, Johan comforts her.
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