# From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

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**Original title**: *Aus dem Leben der Marionetten*
**Runtime**: 104 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Ingmar Bergman
**Written by**: Ingmar Bergman
**Starring**: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek, Lola Müthel, Walter Schmidinger

> *The Woman He's About to Touch is a Dream. The Murder He's About to Commit is Not.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Scenes from a Marriage if everyone is a suspect. A businessman murders a prostitute, then attempts to analyze the reasons why. Bergman's austere chamber drama is not quite what it seems.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, dread, gut-punch

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