| From the Life of the Marionettes | |
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| Written by | Ingmar Bergman |
| Directed by | Ingmar Bergman |
| Starring | Robert Atzorn Heinz Bennent Martin Benrath Toni Berger Christine Buchegger |
| Music by | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
| Country of origin | West Germany Sweden |
| Original language | German |
| Production | |
| Producers | Konrad Wendlandt Horst Wendlandt Ingmar Bergman |
| Cinematography | Sven Nykvist |
| Editor | Petra von Oelffen |
| Running time | 101 minutes[1] |
| Original release | |
| Release | 3 November 1980 |
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From the Life of the Marionettes (German: Aus dem Leben der Marionetten) is a 1980 television film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film was produced in West Germany with a German-language screenplay and soundtrack while Bergman was in "tax exile" from his native Sweden. It is filmed in black and white apart from two colour sequences at the beginning and end of the film.
Set in Munich, the film charts the disintegration of the relationship of Katarina and Peter Egermann, based on the unhappy couple of the same names briefly featured in Bergman's 1973 miniseries Scenes from a Marriage. In a reimagining of the characters, Peter and Katarina's unhappiness and unfaithfulness culminates in Peter's murder of a prostitute.
- ^ "From The Life Of The Marionettes - Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten (1980)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 19 July 2018.