Lingering after a rehearsal for August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, , eminent director Henrik into a frank and flirtatious conversation with his up-and-coming star, Anna, leading him to recall his affair with Anna’s late mother, the self-destructive actress Rake.

Made for television with a cast of three, After the Rehearsal is a late-career triumph from Ingmar Bergman. A minimalistic meditation on ageing and stagecraft, this deceptively austere chamber piece poignantly merges the auteur’s twin passions—film and theatre—for a staggering cinematic confession.