The Image Makers

Infobox_Film
name = The Image Makers


imdb_id = 0303764
writer = Per Olov Enquist
starring = Anita Björk
Elin Klinga
Lennart Hjulström
Carl Magnus Dellow
Henrik Nyberg
director = Ingmar Bergman
producer = SVT
distributor =
released = 2000
runtime = 99 min
language = Swedish
budget =

The Image Makers (Swedish original title: "Bildmakarna") is a 2000 Swedish TV drama directed by Ingmar Bergman and written by Per Olov Enquist.

The play was originally written for and staged by the Royal Dramatic Theatre (featuring the same cast), where it premiered on Feb 13, 1998 (directed by Bergman). Following the success of the stage production, it was adapted for Swedish television (SVT) in 2000 with Bergman as a director.

"The Image Makers" portrays an odd meeting of four great Swedish artists: author Selma Lagerlöf, actress Tora Teje, film director Victor Sjöström and film photographer Julius Jaenzon. The drama is set in the year 1920 at Swedish Filmstudios where the great silent film director Victor Sjöström is shooting the silent film "The Phantom Carriage", an adaptation of Lagerlöf's popular novel "Körkarlen". He has now invited the book's grand authoress to take a first look at some early scenes...

Due for an international DVD release on Feb 25 2008, on Tartan DVD, along with "The Phantom Carriage" (double disc).

Cast

*"Anita Björk" ("Selma Lagerlöf")
*"Elin Klinga" ("Tora Teje")
*"Lennart Hjulström" ("Victor Sjöström")
*"Carl Magnus Dellow" ("Julius Jaenzon")
*"Henrik Nyberg" ("Projectionist")

External links

* [http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65792 DVD Times - The Phantom Carriage and The Image Makers Edition] (Tartan DVD release info)