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Elderly professor Isak Borg drives to receive an honorary degree as dreams, memories, and traveling companions reopen his emotionally distant life.

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Seventy-eight-year-old physician Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund with daughter-in-law Marianne to receive a jubilee doctorate. Disturbing dreams, a visit to his childhood home, hitchhikers, and roadside encounters turn the drive into an involuntary review of his relationships.

Why it belongs

Wild Strawberries moves effortlessly among dream, memory, road comedy, and reckoning, anchored by Victor Sjöström's grave, by degrees softening presence.

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Bergman's dream structure and Gunnar Fischer's cinematography let clocks without hands, empty streets, summer houses, mirrors, strawberries, and faces from different ages fold time around the journey—Victor Sjöström makes Isak's reserve slowly disclose loneliness, vanity, tenderness, and regret.

Major award record

Metadata only · zero points in 40/40/20
Golden Globes1 win1960 · official film record ↗

Plus 1 additional win

No headline-category win to name

Totals include every recorded competitive win. Only Picture or top-film honors, Direction, Screenplay, and lead or supporting performances are named.

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Institutional reference ranks

Sight & Sound108IMDb Top 250229AFI 100—
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Great Cinema Master List scores

Greatness9.4
Engagement8.5
Ease8.2

Swedish · Not Rated
Narrative Feature
Mood: Absorbing & Reflective