Live Ullmann, 38, muse of the well known film maker Ingmar Bergman is all set to make a return to Norwegian films after a gap of 38 years.
Ullmann will star as a grandmother in the film ‘In a Mirror, In a Riddle’ based on a novel by Jostein Gaarder. Ullmann was last seen on screen in Bergman’s 2003 swansong Saraband. The actor says that the brilliance of the script swayed her to act in the upcoming movie, who had decided to not act any furthur.
The upcoming movie is being directed by Danish filmmaker Jesper Nielson who recieved international acclaim with his 1991 movie Sophie’s World about a Norwegian teenager who is taken on a historical journey through a time traveller from ancient Greece.
Ullmann will be seen playing a role of a grandmother to a 13 year old girl who is severly ill. This is the first role accepted by Ullmann after 38 years ever since the world saw her in 1969’s An-Magritt. The story of the movie moved her and she wept while reading the script and hence decided upon doing this upcoming Norwegian movie.
Ullmann has been seen in 9 films earlier directed by the filmmaker Late Ingmar Bergman inclusive of films like 1966’s Persona, 1973’s Scenes from a Marriage and 1976’s Face to Face. She has also played her hands into direction with her movie Faithless from a script by Bergman in 2002.
Ullmann is all set to shoot for the upcoming movie in Oslo come November and the world will definately be awaiting the much anticipated return of Ullmann to Norwegian Films.
