History Film / EnPassion

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: The wiener dog obviously was not, but the sheep and horse may have been.

* NordicNoir: As a tale of a man whose relationship with a MysteriousWoman with a possible DarkAndTroubledPast turns him into an obsessive mess, you can call this a Bergman riff on FilmNoir concepts, and with the Fårö setting, it can be seen as an early predecessor of the genre.

* AllJustaDream: Played with. [[spoiler: At one point, Anna recounts a dream she had. We then get to see that dream, which appears to begin with the final moments of Bergman's previous movie, Shame, indicating that the entirety of that movie was only a dream had by Anna.]] This being a Bergman movie, it's never made 100% clear.

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler: Andreas nearly kills Anna with an axe. He does not however, putting it into the wall and merely beating her up.]]

%%** Definitely for the killer of animals [[spoiler: who may also be Anna]].

* FourthWallBreaking: Every twenty minutes or so, the film switches to a brief interview with one of the lead actors (in order, von Sydow, Ullmann, Andersson, Josephson), where they give their thoughts on the character they're playing. Josephson's interview is notable since it comes up long after Elis is PutOnABus. This was the first time Bergman tried something like that, and he never did it again.

The main character is Andreas, a former geologist living in self-imposed exile on a small Swedish island. After she asks to use his phone, he meets the mysterious Anna, a fellow islander mourning the recent death of her husband and son in an automobile accident. The two embark on a tentative romance, although their respective mysterious pasts prove disastrous to the relationship. Andreas also occasionally interacts with his middle class neighbours, architect Elis and his wife Eva (with whom Andreas has a brief affair). Against the backdrop of the quartet's complicated love lives, someone-- or ''something''-- begins brutally killing livestock on the island, throwing the entire community into an air of suspicion and paranoia.

This film is the third in a row where Liv Ullmann and von Sydow play an onscreen couple after ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'' and ''Film/{{Skammen}}''. It is often incorrectly identified as Bergman's first color film, a title that actually belongs to ''All These Women'', made five years earlier.

* CallBack: [[spoiler: Anna's black and white dream sequence is either meant to invoke ''Film/{{Skammen}}'' or indicates that ''Skammen'' itself was entirely Anna's dream. ''Skammen'' ends with Liv Ullman's character on a boat filled with sleeping people adrift in the ocean.]]

* CallBack: [[spoiler: Anna's black and white dream sequence is either meant to invoke ''Film/{{Skammen}}'' or indicates that Skammen itself was entirely Anna's dream. Skammen ends with Liv Ullman's character on a boat filled with sleeping people adrift in the ocean; Anna's dream picks up with Anna (also played by Li

''En Passion'' (''The Passion of Anna'' in English) is a 1969 film directed by Creator/IngmarBergman, starring Creator/LivUllmann and Creator/MaxVonSydow in the lead roles and fellow Bergman regulars Creator/BibiAndersson and Creator/ErlandJosephson in supporting roles. It serves as a sort of pseudo-sequel to/spinoff from Bergman's previous film, ''Film/Skammen'', which may or may not have been the dream of the titular Anna.

''En Passion'' (''The Passion of Anna'' in English) is a 1969 film directed by Creator/IngmarBergman, starring Creator/LivUllmann and Creator/MaxVonSydow in the lead roles and fellow Bergman regulars Creator/BibiAndersson and Creator/ErlandJosephson in supporting roles.

The main character is Andreas, a former geologist who has to hide in the countryside. He meets Anna, with whom he later starts a romance, although it might be that Anna is a somewhat too damaged goods even for Andreas, who himself is quite a broken man. He also occasionally interacts with his middle class neighbours, architect Elis and his wife Eva (with whom Andreas has an affair that ultimately leads nowhere before he meets Anna).

* CallBack: A character played by Liv Ullmann in Anna's B&W dream of Anna is most probably her character ''Film/{{Skammen}}''. At the beginning of her dream, she disembarks from the boat on which she remained in the ending scene of that film.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Elis recognizes that he only works as an architect because his earnings let him indulge in is unprofitable and expensive photography hobbies.

** It is revealed in the second half of the film that Andreas served a term in prison.
** Anna's past may be even more dark and troubled than the first half of the film implies; [[spoiler:she may be the one who killed her previous husband and their son]].

%%** Definitely for the killer of animals.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Elis recognises that he only works as an architect because his earnings let him satisfy his various needs.

* RiddleForTheAges: Who was actually killing animals in the country? The one who was accused by the public opinion turned out to be innocent.

* {{Cuckold}}: Elis is aware of his wife's adultery with Andreas (Anna's husband) and tells her that he does not resent her infidelity. Most probably he retains the attitude when Eva cheats on him with the second Andreas. He even offers him a job.

* WouldHitAGirl: Andreas definitely would once Anna accuses him of every sin imaginable and repeatedly cries at him.
* YourCheatingHeart: Eva cheated on Elis with Anna's husband Andreas before the film begins, and then cheats on him with the second Andreas when Elis leaves on a business trip.

* TheEnd: The film ends with the title "Slut", which is Swedish for "end".

* FilmNoir: Doesn't really count as one, but as a tale of a man whose relationship with a MysteriousWoman with a possible DarkAndTroubledPast turns him into an obsessive mess, you can call this a Bergman riff on Noir concepts.

''En Passion'' is a 1969 film by Creator/IngmarBergman. Its English title is ''The Passion of Anna''. Main roles are played by Creator/LivUllmann and Creator/MaxVonSydow. Supporting roles are played by the other Bergman regulars, Creator/BibiAndersson and Creator/ErlandJosephson.

The main character is Andreas, a former geologist who has to hide in the countryside. He meets Anna with whom he later starts a romance although it might be that Anna is a somewhat too damaged goods even for Andreas who himself is quite a broken man. He also occasionally meets his neighbours, Elis and Eva, a middle-class family of an architect and his wife. Once before his romance with Anna he has an affair with Eva which does not lead anywhere. The gist of the film is still the relation of Anna and Andreas with starts somewhat late into the film.

This film is the third in a row where Liv Ullmann and von Sydow make an onscreen couple after ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'' and ''Film/{{Skammen}}''. It is believed by many to be the first color film by Bergman which is not correct as in 1964 he shot a much lesser known film ''All These Women'' in color. (Also some people who are unaware of both of these films say that ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'' is Bergman's first color film).

* BewareTheHonestOnes: The film.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Anna]]
* {{Bookworm}}: Played with for Andreas. He has two bookcases full of books, somewhat unusually for a small country house. However he is never seen with any of them. When Eva asks him whether he has read all the books in his library he only answers that not all of them.
* BrokenBird: Anna Fromm who recently lost her husband and child.[[spoiler: it is later implied that she might be the breaker rather than the broken one.]]
** Eva qualifies as well.

* CallBack: A character played by the same Liv Ullmann in the B&W dream of Anna is most probably her character from the similarly B&W Film/{{Skammen}}. In the beginning of her dream she goes off the boat onboard of which she remained in the ending scene of that film.
* CaptainObvious: Of very gloomy kind: Johan writes that when he was beaten up he could not resist his attackers because he was out of strength.
* CloudCuckooLander: Eva is very frequently the one.
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Elis collects the photos of humans sorted by theme. One of the segments of his collection is made by photos of the violent acts committed againts people.
* ColorMotif: Beware when in the film which is made in color but where the colors are very dull a bright red thing is shown.

* {{Cuckold}}: Elis who is aware of his wife's adultery with the first Andreas and tells that he does not resent her infidelity.
** Most probably he retains the attitude when Eva cheats on him with the second Andreas played by von Sydow. He even offers a job for the lover of his wife.
* TheCynic: Elis big time.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: For Andreas who as it becomes known in the second half of the film served a term in prison.
** Also for Anna for whom the past must be even darker and more troubled than we are told in the first half of the film.
* DeadpanSnarker: Elis which is lampshaded by Eva who says no-one pays any attention to his snarking except for herself.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Anna proves to be very much not what she seems and she and Andreas separate after a very bad fight]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Johan when he is accused of killing the animals and tormented by the unknown assaulters.]]
* TheEnd: The film end with the title Slut which means exactly "end" in Swedish.
* {{Exposition}}: Several dialogues in the begining are this trope.
* FieryRedhead When Anna passionately claims that she puts the truth about everything and is very attached to this notion she is this.

* FourPhilosophyEnsemble
** Cynic: Elis
** Optimist: Anna [[spoiler: of course this is later subverted aseverything about her but throughout the most of the film she is the optimist.]]
** Realist: Eva [[spoiler: When she stops being a CloudCuckooLander and sees things as they are.]]
** Apathetic: Andreas.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
** Choleric: Anna
** Melanchonic: Andreas
** Phlegmatic: Elis
** Sanguine: Eva
* FourthWallBreaking: Every twenty minutes or so, the film switches to a brief interview with one of the lead actors (The order is: von Sydow, Ullmann, Andersson, Josephson), where they give their thoughts on the character they're playing. Josephson's interview is notable since it comes up long after Elis was PutOnABus. This was the first time Bergman tried something like that, and he never did it again.
* HiddenDepths: For the titular Anna. [[spoiler:Who might have killed her previous husband and son though it is never confirmed.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Andreas calls Anna out on her hypocrisy.
* InnocentBlueEyes: Probably invoked for the truth-loving Anna but later decisively subverted.

* KarmaHoudini: Most probably for two vigilantes who tormented Johan [[spoiler:who was driven to suicide in the result]]. It is never indicated that Johan revealed their identity though he could do it.
** Definitely for the killer of animals.
** Arguably also [[spoiler: for Anna as it is hinted that she might have killed her husband and her son.]]
* KubrickStare: When Elis photographs Andreas he tells him to move down his head aiming for this effect.

* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: The wiener dog obviously was not but what about sheep and a horse.

* OfficialCouple: Utterly oddly Eva, the former lover of Andreas, once says that Andreas and Anna are the couple and that she is not jealous before the relationship of Andreas and Anna is ever shown onscrean. Several scenes before Eva quits Andreas' house then all those scenes do not feature Anna and Andreas together and Anna does not appear in any of those at all. It is only after that mentioning of Eva that they are shown together as a couple.
* OneSteveLimit: Subverted as the deceased husband of Anna was called Andreas like the main character played by von Sydow. He never appears but the viewer is shown his photo. Elis lampshades this calling the deceased man "the namesake" for the character of von Sydow.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Elis recognises that he works because the earnings from his profession of architect let him satisfy his various needs.
* PetTheDog: First Andreas takes out of the noose the dog hanged on his plot and saves him.
** Later he is the only one to support Johan wrongly accused of killing the animals.

* RiddleForTheAges: Who was actually killing animals in the country since the one who was accused by the public opinion turned out to be innocent.
* TheScream: Andreas lets out the one when Eva leaves him after their brief romance.
* SelfDeprecation: For Eva when she goes away from Andreas after their brief romance. She says that she might be the dullest lover he ever had.
* SellOut: Elis who works as a highly-payed architect considers himself as such.
* {{Snuff}}: Elis has a huge collection of the photos of people classified so that every drawer contains pictures referring to a certain topic. One of his drawers contains the photos of violent acts on humans.
* SplashOfColor: In general the colours in this movie are very dull however several times a splash of red punctuates the key moments:
** First the blood of [[spoiler: the killed sheep]] is as bright as in a typical giallo.
** Later the bright red bricks are shown on the ground [[spoiler: immediately after that Andreas is told by the police that Johan has committed suicide.]]
** Finally Anna's kerchief is bright red in the decisive scene between her and Andreas. [[spoiler: She violently accuses him and he beats her up.]] The kerchief ends on the ground where the viewer previously saw [[spoiler:the killed sheep]] and bricks.
* TemporaryLoveInterest: Andreas for Eva as they have a very short fling once Elis leaves for a business trip.
* TimeSkip: The voiceover comments in the beginning of one scene than Anna and Andreas live several days together.
** Later the voiceover mentions that they already live several years together and rarely have conflicts.

* WimpFight: When the obviously much stronger Andreas attacks Anna he hits her very maladroitly so that she manages to put up quite a fight against him for some time, delivering several blows. It is implied that the male character is not much of a fighter. Of course in the end he still beats her up.

* YourCheatingHeart: Eva in the past cheated on Elis with Andreas, the former husband of Anna.
** Onscreen she cheats on Elis with the present Andreas played by von Sydown.

* FourthWallBreaking: The four starring actors are briefly interviewed on camera and tell what they think about their characters. Bergman formerly never experimented in this way nor would he do it again later.
** Four short interviews are spread throughout the 1 hour 40 minutes of the film. The order is: von Sydow, Ullmann, Andersson, Josephson. Interestingly the last actor playing Elis is expressing his ideas about his character late in the film when he has already been put on a bus for some screen time.

En passion is a 1969 film by Creator/IngmarBergman. Its English title is The Passion of Anna. Main roles are played by Creator/LivUllmann and Creator/MaxVonSydow. Supporting roles are played by the other Bergman regulars, Creator/BibiAndersson and Creator/ErlandJosephson.