It’s amazing that this film is only now being adapted for the stage, after all, it’s already 55 years old. And disturbingly current. In “Shame” Ingmar Bergman describes an artist couple whose active creative period dates back some time. Jan and Eva are sitting in a little house on an island, doing a little farming, then a nameless war breaks out in the nameless area, soldiers appear, first from one side, then from the other, a strange superior named Jacobi protects them both , until he himself is pursued, Jan is supposed to shoot him, the house is destroyed in search of money, soon afterwards Jan kills a young deserter, the two of them escape, and end up floating out to sea in a small boat between corpses floating around.
Ingmar Bergman’s “Shame” at the Thalia Theater – Culture
