Question
In one of this director’s films, Professor Isak Borg travels the countryside with his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne, where they pick up several hitchhikers that remind Borg of his past memories. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Swedish director of Wild Strawberries. Another film by this director features a prominent chess match between the knight Antonius Block and a personification of Death.
ANSWER: Ingmar Bergman [or Ernst Ingmar Bergman] (The unnamed film in the final clue is The Seventh Seal.)
[10h] This Bergman experimental film contains an iconic shot of the superimposed faces of the nurse Alma and her patient Elisabet Vogler, who has become mute and moves into a cottage with Alma where they merge identities.
ANSWER: Persona
[10e] Bergman’s film Fanny and Alexander opens on this holiday. Other famous movies depicting this holiday include Miracle on 34th Street and It’s a Wonderful Life.
ANSWER: Christmas [accept X-mas]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
Data
| Maryland | Fordham | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Lehigh | Rowan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Penn | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Princeton | Columbia A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |