Ingmar Bergman's film, one of the few foreign films to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, stars Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulman as the sisters of Harriet Andersson, who is dying of cancer. Both having had their own brushes with death, as they keep vigil, they explore and explain their emotions and feelings in a moving exploration of secrets, desires and slights.
Cries and Whispers is a Film programme that first aired in 1972 and has been classified a PG certificate.
