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Wild Strawberries

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Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, following an elderly professor on a car journey to receive an honorary degree, during which memories, dreams, and encounters with strangers lead him to confront regrets from his past. The film alternates between naturalistic present-day scenes and dreamlike sequences, an approach that became closely associated with Bergman's broader body of work exploring mortality, memory, and personal reckoning. Wild Strawberries won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and is regarded as one of the films that established Bergman's international reputation as a major director.

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Classification
Original Language
Swedish 1
Award
Golden Bear 1
Award
Silver nugget for the best foreign film 1
Release Year
1957 1
Country
Sweden 2
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Was Wild Strawberries nominated for an Academy Award?

Yes, for writing at the 32nd Academy Awards; Pillow Talk won.

Yes. Wild Strawberries was nominated at the 32nd Academy Awards, which the Academy lists under 1960, in the category of writing a story and screenplay written directly for the screen, with Ingmar Bergman named as the nominee. The award went to Pillow Talk. The other nominees were The 400 Blows, North by Northwest and Operation Petticoat.
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Sources
1. Wikidata: Wild Strawberries
Wikidata Q239756, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
2. Wild Strawberries (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • lead paragraph, opening sentence naming the release year and director
    Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish road drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
  • lead paragraph, opening sentence naming the country of production
    Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish road drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
  • Wild Strawberries, Description, original language
    Wild Strawberries is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, following an elderly professor on a car journey to receive an honorary degree, during which memories, dreams, and encounters with strangers lead him to confront regrets from his past.
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Wild Strawberries (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata P166: Golden Bear
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Golden Bear.
  • Wikidata P166: Silver nugget for the best foreign film
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Silver nugget for the best foreign film.
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