Tag: Josef Olaf Wallin

• Wild Strawberries and a poem

  I recently watched Ingmar Bergman’s achingly doleful Wild Strawberries, and one particular part stood out: the poem read by Isak Borg, the lonely old professor, when asked to resolve a lunchtime debate over the existence of God. After some Internet research, I learned the poem is an 1819 Swedish hymn by Josef Olaf Wallin called “Where is…

  Sep 18, 2012

  # Criterion Collection, film, God, Ingmar Bergman, Josef Olaf Wallin, movies, Sweden, Wild Strawberries