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In the Presence of a Clown (Swedish: Larmar och gör sig till) is a television film by Ingmar Bergman, recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It tells the story of a professor named Carl, who has been found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to treatment in a mental ward. In the hospital he befriends a man named Osvald, and they attempt to make and promote a film.

The film was produced for Sveriges Television from Bergman's 1994 play of the same title.

Cast

• Börje Ahlstedt – Uncle Carl Åkerblom
• Marie Richardson – Pauline Thibault
• Erland Josephson – Osvald Vogler
• Pernilla August – Karin Bergman
• Anita Björk – Anna Åkerblom
• Agneta Ekmanner – Rigmor the clown
• Lena Endre – Märta Lundberg
• Gunnel Fred – Emma Vogler
• Gerthi Kulle – Sister Stella
• Johan Lindell – Johan Egerman
• Peter Stormare – Petrus Landahl
• Folke Asplund – Fredrik Blom
• Anna Björk – Mia Falk
• Inga Landgré – Alma Berglund
• Alf Nilsson – Stefan Larsson

References

External links

• In the Presence of a Clown at AllMovie
• In the Presence of a Clown at IMDb
• In the Presence of a Clown at the Swedish Film Institute Database