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Through a Glass Darkly
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #291
- IMDb #498
- Rotten Tomatoes #56
- Letterboxd #330
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #37
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #387
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- Metacritic Critics #473
- Criticker #78
- Kinopoisk #714
- AlloCiné #1068
- Trakt #942
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 100.
See the most agreed on films →Over a 24-hour period on a remote island, a family grapples with despair. Karin, a young woman recently released from a mental hospital, spends time with her writer father, her husband, and her younger brother. Her fragile mental state deteriorates as she believes she is receiving messages from God through the wallpaper, exposing the deep fractures and loneliness within the family.
Details
- Director
- Ingmar Bergman
- Writer
- Ingmar Bergman
- Studio
- SF Studios
- Released
- 16 October 1961
- Country
- Sweden
- Language
- Swedish, Latin
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Box office
- $8.9K
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 5 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1962 | Best Foreign Language Film | Sweden | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1963 | Best Original Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
| BAFTA Awards 1963 | Best Film | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominee |
| BAFTA Awards 1963 | Best Foreign Actress | Harriet Andersson | Nominee |
| National Board of Review 1962 | Top Foreign Films | Through a Glass Darkly | Winner |
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5 awards — Through a Glass Darkly
×| Best Foreign Language Film | Sweden | Winner |
| Best Original Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman | Nominee |
| Best Film | Through a Glass Darkly | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Actress | Harriet Andersson | Nominee |
| Top Foreign Films | Through a Glass Darkly | Winner |