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The Touch(Movie, 1971)

Original title: "Beröringen" (Swedish/SV)
1h 55min | Genre: Drama
The TouchRating: 3.2/5 (with 1818 votes)
The Touch (Swedish: Beröringen) is a 1971 romantic drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Elliott Gould, and Sheila Reid. The film tells the story of an affair between a married woman and an impetuous foreigner. It contains references to the Virgin Mary and the Holocaust. Produced by ABC Pictures, The Touch was Bergman's first English-language film, but made in two versions - one in Swedish and English, the other wholly in English. It was shot on the island of Gotland in Sweden in 1970. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist shot it in Eastmancolor. Gould, cast over Paul Newman and Robert Redford, believed Bergman's screenplay was semi-autobiographical. The film received mixed to negative reviews and failed at the box office. It has since had a limited rerelease by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2011 and a home ... ()
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About The Touch

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

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Trailer for The Touch + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Ingmar Bergman's The Touch - in cinemas 23 February I BFI(Trailer, 1:26)

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Additional Information

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Production countries: Sweden, United States of America (USA)
Plays in: London, Sweden
Original language: Swedish (SV)
Spoken languages: English (EN), Swedish (SV)
Translated into 15 languages: German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 01/14/1972 (World premiere: 07/14/1971)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Berührungen"
"Die Berührung"
"La carcoma"
"Le lien"
"L'adultera"
Keywords: love affair, love
Budget: 6,900,000 USD
Revenue: 6,530,000 USD (= 95%)

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Other movies with this title: The Touch (PL, 1978), The Touch (SU, 1989), The Touch (RU, 1992), The Touch (CN/HK/JP/TW, 2002), The Touch (US, 2005), The Touch (US, 2007), The Touch (US, 2014)

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