Light Keeps Me Company

• Director: Carl-Gustaf Nykvist
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• Genre: Film, TV & Radio
• Movie Type: Biography
• Themes: Filmmaking
• Main Cast: Woody Allen, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Richard Attenborough
• Release Year: 2000
• Country: SE/DK
• Run Time: 78 minutes

Plot

This moving, finely-wrought portrayal of legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist was directed by his son Carl-Gustav Nykvist -- a noted filmmaker himself. Spanning from long forgotten kiddie flick in 1945 to Woody Allen's Celebrity (1997), Nykvist's career came to an abrupt end when he was diagnosed with a rare disorder that affects his speech. Though the film explores Nykvist's upbringing and turbulent private life (an ugly divorce, the suicide of one of his sons, an affair with Mia Farrow), the emotional heart of the film is his celebrated collaboration with auteur Ingmar Bergman, with whom Nykvist made some of his most enduring work, including Winter Light (1962) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973). As Bergman recalls his own career, he notes, "I don't miss making films, but I miss the collaboration with Sven." ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Woody Allen
• Bibi Andersson
• Harriet Andersson
• Richard Attenborough

Pernilla August; Ingmar Bergman; Jean Doumanian; Erland Josephson; Melanie Griffith; Melinda Kinneman; Laszlo Kovacs; Gunnel Lindblom; Roman Polanski; Giuseppe Rotunno; Gena Rowlands; Susan Sarandon; Stellan Skarsgård; Vittorio Storaro; Jan Troell; Liv Ullmann; Rikard Wolff; Vilmos Zsigmond

Credit

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist - Director, Lasse Summanen - Editor, Torbjörn Andersson - Cinematographer, Laszlo Kovacs - Cinematographer, Dan Myhrman - Cinematographer, Carl-Gustaf Nykvist - Cinematographer, Sven Nykvist - Cinematographer, Billy Williams - Cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmond - Cinematographer, Carl-Gustaf Nykvist - Producer, Klas Olofsson - Producer, Lars Blomgren - Producer, Bo Persson - Sound/Sound Designer, Michal Leszczylowski - Screenwriter, Carl-Gustaf Nykvist - Screenwriter

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