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The Best Intentions

1991, Swedish, on SVT1.

The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.

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Seasons
1
Episodes
4
Episode length
90 min
Status
Ended in 1991

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Aired 30 December 1991

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First aired
25 December 1991
Last aired
30 December 1991
Network
SVT1
Original title
Den goda viljan
Language
Swedish
Country
Sweden
Type
Scripted
forbidden lovebiographyperiod dramatheologysemi autobiographicalcomplex relationship

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