Taylor struggles to deal with the … [17] That year, James Berardinelli praised Andersson's performance as "so powerful that we feel like intruders watching it. When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. As Agnes' condition deteriorates and pain management becomes increasingly more difficult, fear and revulsion grip the sisters, who seem incapable of empathy, and Agnes' only comfort and solace comes from her maid Anna. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. [43] The story fits Bergman's motif of "warring women", seen earlier in The Silence and Persona and later in Autumn Sonata (1978). It is a sort of a vision that I have and I will try to describe it". [9] Karin has the same name as Bergman's mother,[10] but all four female protagonists are intended to represent aspects of her personality.[11]. (Note: Over 500 of my movie reviews are now available in my book "Cut to the Chaise Lounge or I Can't Believe I Swallowed the Remote!" [80], The film was generally praised in the United States. Yes, by Christ there is! The sisters reconcile after the argument, touching each other. However, Farrow was never cast. "Cries and Whispers," much ballyhooed, I recall, when it appeared, seems too psychoanalytically intense today; dark and mysterious, beautifully filmed in an intense red-yes, very striking against the northern cold, but somehow not entirely convincing. A childhood memory of the Sophiahemmet mortuary also influenced the director: The young girl who had just been treated lay on a wooden table in the middle of the floor. See how many you recognize now that they're grown up. [82] and named it "the best film of 1972". [30], Every major film-distribution company rejected Cries and Whispers, even when Bergman asked for an advance of only $75,000. Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. [13][14] To save money, the main actresses and Nykvist returned their salaries as loans and were nominal co-producers. [19] Ullmann described receiving a 50-page "personal letter" from Bergman describing the story which began, "Dear Friends: We're now going to make a film together. So rather than being escapist movie-making, it rubs your face in some of the harsher and less pleasant aspects of real life. [110] Ivo van Hove directed a 2009 adaptation at the Bergman Festival in Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre,[111] and in 2011 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Chris Nietvelt as Agnes, moving the story to a contemporary setting, reducing the use of red and replacing the film's classical music with modern songs, including Janis Joplin's "Cry Baby". The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). [12], Since Bergman's films were difficult to market, foreign capital was unavailable to finance the film. [24] Nykvist used Eastmancolor film, which reduced graininess and would be the most sensitive to colours. [109], It has been adapted for the stage. [46], Feminists critiqued the film. [1], The film premiered at the Spegeln theatre in Stockholm on 5 March 1973. The young Maria whispers to her mother, and Karin and Maria whisper to each other as they bond. Anna re-enters the room and takes Agnes back to bed, where she cradles the dead Agnes in her arms. As Agnes' condition deteriorates and pain management becomes increasingly more difficult, fear and revulsion grip the sisters, who seem incapable of empathy, and Agnes' only comfort and solace comes from her maid Anna. Karin, repelled by the invitation, says that she still has life and does not love Agnes enough to join her. [107] Woody Allen's later films, including 1978's Interiors and 1987's Hannah and Her Sisters, were influenced by Cries and Whispers,[h] as was Margarethe von Trotta's 1979—1988 trilogy: Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness, Marianne and Juliane and Love and Fear. Although he used 750,000 SEK of his savings and borrowed 200,000 SEK, he also asked the Swedish Film Institute for help with the film's 1.5-million SEK budget. When a woman dying of cancer in turn-of-the century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. Movie Info. Marisol discovers a new side of Jesse. It is so personal, so penetrating of privacy, we almost want to look away". [24][25] Since the mansion's interior was dilapidated, the crew was free to paint and decorate as they saw fit. Trailer. 22 wins & 16 nominations. The film descends into a netherworld of the supernatural; the dead woman speaks (or is it only that they think they hear her? ", According to Bergman, he conceived the story during a lonely, unhappy time on Fårö when he wrote constantly. The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other. [45], Rueschmann quoted Bergman as saying his "ceaseless fascination with the whole race of women is one of [his] mainsprings. [8] To the disappointment of Swedish Film Institute members, Bergman refused to shoot in their new, expensive studios and filmed on location at Taxinge-Näsby Castle. [54] The prologue's bells and clocks are more audible than the natural sounds preceding them; Agnes' struggle to breathe soon joins the clocks' ticking, with editor Ken Dancyger finding "the continuity of time and life". Its themes include faith, the female psyche and the search for meaning in suffering, and academics have found Biblical allusions. Agnes wrote that "come what may, this is happiness. After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. Before the director's death in 2007, Ullmann starred in 11 of his works and became known as his muse. Anna is dismissed without warmth or sympathy, and the men deny her monetary rewards despite years of service. [63], In 1972, Variety's staff defined "Bergman's lean style" as including a "use of lingering close-ups, fades to red and a soundtrack echoing with the ticking of clocks, the rustle of dresses and the hushed cries of the lost". [87] Emanuel Levy praised the film's cinematography and the performances of the female leads, calling the result a masterpiece in 2008. [72][f] The score also contains Frédéric Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.17/4, performed by Käbi Laretei. A woman's impending death leads to painful memories and confrontations for herself and her two sisters. And that in these two instances when working in total freedom, I touched wordless secrets that only the cinema can discover". TV-14 | 42min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | Episode aired 20 July 2015. [81] Roger Ebert gave Cries and Whispers four stars (out of four) in his initial review: "We slip lower in our seats, feeling claustrophobia and sexual disquiet, realizing that we have been surrounded by the vision of a film maker who has absolute mastery of his art". [78], Before the film's release, estimations of Bergman were lowered by The Rite (1969) and The Touch (1971). This existential wail of a drama concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). Play trailer with sound 2:19. His story, which takes place inside a Swedish manor house on the grounds of a large estate, shows us a dying woman named Agnes and those who have come to … Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop, lit. [39] The magic-lantern show takes place on Twelfth Night. I lifted a hand and touched her shoulder. Maria also rejects "sentimental appeals" from Karin. Gervais likened this to the protagonist of Bergman's earlier Winter Light, Bergman's own conflicted feelings and his relationship to his father, Erik, a minister of the Church of Sweden. As the end draws closer, long repressed feelings of grudging resentment and mistrust cause jealousy, selfishness, and bitterness between the siblings to surface. What he seems to be saying here is we are desperate creatures living a cold and ultimately empty existence. Cries and Whispers takes place at an old English manor and revolves around four women, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), Maria (Liv Ullmann), Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Kari Sylwan). 'Whispers and Cries') is a 1972 Swedish period drama movie directed by Ingmar Bergman and stars Harriet Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin.It was nominated for 5 Oscars and won for Best Cinematography in 1974. in turn-of-the-century Sweden. [28] However, he doubted that there was much difference between men and women: "I think that if I had made Cries and Whispers with four men in the leading roles, the story would have been largely the same".[53]. Cries and Whispers Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Maria tells Karin that it is unusual for them to avoid touching each other or having a deep conversation. [74] To qualify for the 46th Academy Awards, distributors hurried to premiere Cries and Whispers in Los Angeles County (several months before its Swedish release). [37], Törnqvist advised against a literal reading of Agnes rising from the dead, relating it to the sisters' guilt. Cries And Whispers is the long-awaited follow-up to 2015’s A Foreign Place, Anthony Reynolds' hugely successful biography of Japan. Cries and Whispers is a harrowing and disturbing tragedy in classic Bergman style. Previous. Agnes, the owner of the manor, is a young, virginal woman terminally ill with womb cancer. [71], Johann Sebastian Bach's sarabande from Cello Suite No. I had heard about the chill of death, but the girl's skin was not cold but hot. [40][e] According to Gervais, the ending presents Bergman's solution: a touch, on certain occasions, can make life worthwhile. Cries and Whispers (English Subtitles) by Ingmar Bergman. See who voted for Cries and Whispers Following two unsuccessful films by Bergman, Cries and Whispers was a critical and commercial success. [12] Sitney analysed Cries and Whispers' colour scheme, writing that there are moves from red with white to red with black to orange and ochre (in the final, autumnal outdoor scene). Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1972 • Sweden. Voted for by 11 critics and 3 directors. Anna, more religious than the sisters, prays after she lost her young daughter. Publication date 1972 Topics Bergman, Red, Cries and Whispers, Jingle, Deterioration Language Swedish. The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other. [47] In Bergman's films, women and men fail to find answers to their dilemmas; according to Mellen, the men are unanswered or cannot care for anyone but themselves. [67] Images follow one another in the five-minute prologue with no spoken words. [48], Academic Laura Hubner agreed with CineAction essayist Varda Burstyn's view that Cries and Whispers depicts the suppression of women, but it does not endorse the suppression and the film opposes patriarchy. Törnqvist wrote that Karin's transfer of blood from her vulva to her mouth means that she will neither have sex nor speak, and preventing communication reinforces loneliness. [17], When Bergman wrote the screenplay, he intended from the start to cast Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin. It is, I think, Ingmar Bergman’s way of treating his own self-disgust, and his envy of those who have faith. [9] The persistence of the vision indicated to Bergman that it could be a film, he said,[8] and he planned a "portrait of my mother ... the great beloved of my childhood". [64] Critic Richard Brody called Cries and Whispers a period piece in which costumes are prominent. (1972). She was quite naked apart from a plaster that ran from throat to pudenda. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, cancer-stricken, dying Agnes is visited in her isolated rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria. [58], Törnqvist, seeing that Anna prays for her dead daughter while eating an apple, wrote: "The eating of the apple links Anna, whose dead daughter was undoubtedly an illegitimate child, with the Eve of the Fall, with Original Sin". [90] Reviewing the Blu-ray in 2015, SF Gate critic Mick LaSalle called Cries and Whispers a "masterpiece" in which the colour red had an important effect. [43] According to academic Arthur Gibson, the Pietà rite becomes redemption: "Anna is holding in her arms the pain and loneliness and sin of the world caught up in the innocent Divine Sufferer". [54] Bergman explained the scene: Death is the ultimate loneliness; that is what is so important. Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop, lit. Sitney associates this with menstruation and castration. Bergman worked on the screenplay from the end of March to the start of June in 1971, in what he describes as “almost hermetic isolation on Fårö island.” [26] Two rooms in the first scene (one where Maria is sleeping and the other being Agnes' room) are joined by the same colours, including "blood red" carpets and drapes and white pillows and nightdresses. [13], The director initially said that he hoped Mia Farrow would be in the film: "Let's see if that works out. [65] Ebert added it to his "Great Movies" list in 2002, writing that to watch the film "is to touch the extremes of human feeling. Maria approaches the undead Agnes but flees in terror when she grabs her, saying that she cannot leave her husband and children. She screams, whimpers, begs, and cries. Director Ingmar Bergman. "Cries and Whispers" is the 34th episode of Devious Maids. [47] Critic Molly Haskell assigned Cries and Whispers to Bergman's later filmography, which differed from his earlier works in their view of women. Agnes dies after a long period of suffering, and at her wake the priest says that her faith was stronger than his own. 'Whispers and Cries') is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. Another [51] Agnes' confinement to bed may reflect gender roles and expectations for women about sex, childbirth and death. Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God. [42] Törnqvist compared the ending to that of Bergman's 1957 Wild Strawberries; it "points to the past, to a paradisaic existence in this life, to the communion inherent in childhood that has later been lost". The family decides to send Anna away at the end of the month, with Fredrik refusing to award her with any additional severance pay, and the maid rejects her promised memento. [33][d] Cinema historian P. Adams Sitney wrote that Hansel and Gretel's parents abandoned them in the forest (symbolism), and Agnes' cancer is the equivalent of the witch in the Brothers Grimm tale. [45] In Film Quarterly, Joan Mellen acknowledged that Bergman used his female characters as mouthpieces and his women signify "the dilemma of alienated, suffering human beings". He decided to shoot Cries and Whispers in Swedish rather than English (as his previous film, The Touch, had been) and finance it through his production company, Cinematograph. Cries and Whispers (English Subtitled) This drama from Ingmar Bergman concerns two sisters keeping vigil for a third who is dying of cancer and finds solace only in the arms of a beatific servant. Inspired by Bergman's mother, Karin Åkerblom, and his vision of four women in a red room, Cries and Whispers was filmed at Taxinge-Näsby Castle in 1971. AKA: Cries and Whispers, Viskningar och rop, Gritos y susurros. 40 of 59 people found this review helpful. A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. Agnes's death has been caught up halfway out into the void. [101], In 1981, PostNord Sverige issued a postage stamp of the scene where Anna holds Agnes as part of a series commemorating the history of Swedish cinema. [96] At Cannes, it won the Technical Grand Prize. Cries and Whispers. Cries and Whispers translation in English-Hungarian dictionary. None of them can, except Anna (Kari Sylwan). In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. Was this review helpful to you? Rosie and Ernesto disagree about her working at the Stappord home. There is real darkness in this programme. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? [28], Professor Egil Törnqvist examined the film's title. [54] Gado also saw parallels to the crucifixion of Jesus and flashbacks to Good Friday and a mention of Twelfth Night at the end of the film (which he considered ironic, since Twelfth Night is associated with revelation). and this clip is from Cries and Whispers. A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist. [91] Los Angeles Times critic Andy Klein placed the film "solidly in the existential/emotional angst mode of [Bergman's] best work", called it a triumphant comeback from The Touch, and joked about the resurrection scene: "Yes, technically this is a zombie film". 1 Summary 2 Plot 3 Trivia 4 Videos 5 Gallery 6 References Carmen gets creative when her new boss invites her on a double date. After its premiere in the United States, distributed by Roger Corman and New World Pictures, the film was released in Sweden and screened out of competition at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. I have seen what she portrays, and can tell you she expressed it in all its horror and hopelessness. 720p for best qualityOldboy Soundtrack - Cries and WhispersComposed by Lee Ji-Soo and Jo Yeong-Wook Ullmann plays Maria, one of her sisters who touches others easily, but without real feeling, so that the touches mean nothing. Agnes remembers their mother, who neglected and teased her and favoured Maria, with greater understanding and recalls sharing a moment of sorrow with her. [57], The sisters' Aunt Olga uses the magic lantern to narrate "Hansel and Gretel", and Sitney connected this with "the gift of fairy tales—and thereby the psychic-defense machinery for exteriorising infantile and Oedipal terrors". UK & Holland: Mar 2020 . [1] Cries and Whispers was later shown out of competition at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, where Bergman received a strong positive reaction from the audience. [70] Her memories of her mother are idealised, with the "flourishing greenery of the Edenic garden". Cries and Whispers. [79] In Sweden, Svenska Dagbladet critic Åke Janzon and Dagens Nyheter critic Hanserik Hjerten assessed Cries and Whispers as a poetically-rendered psychological study. Cries and Whispers is one of the B-sides of the single Everything's Gone Green, by New Order, the other being "Mesh".. There is simply nothing about this film that I find wrong or imperfect that I have to stop myself from giving it 5 stars. [29][c] Professor Emma Wilson described the family's predicament, with Karin feeling endangered by touch and Maria seeking an "erotic" touch. According to Törnqvist, "The cries relate to the opposite emotions: anguish, impotence, loneliness". When Agnes' doctor David visits, he sees his former lover Maria. [24], Few of Bergman's previous films were shot in colour. All of "Cries and Whispers" is occupied with passion - but the passion is inside, the characters can't get it out of themselves. [64] In New York, Judith Crist called it "a work of genius— certainly the most complex, the most perceptive and the most humane of Bergman's works to date". [80] Critic O. Foss wrote a less-positive review in Fant, calling it "a rhapsody of petrified Bergman themes". She tries to touch Karin, who recoils at the gesture. Zoila gets in the middle of Genevieve and her new boyfriend. [88] Cries and Whispers ranked 154th in the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. [75] It premiered in New York City on 21 December 1972. Cries and Whispers. It received five Academy Award nominations, including one for Best Picture (rare for a foreign-language film). It probably will; why shouldn't it?" [75], At the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011 (with Andersson in attendance), Cries and Whispers was screened in the Retrospective section. [85], Empire critic David Parkinson gave Cries and Whispers five stars in 2000, writing that the film fit a subset of "character study" at which Bergman was adept. [a] Her sisters, Maria and Karin, arrive at their childhood home and take turns with the maid, Anna, watching over Agnes. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives. [13] Kari Sylwan, a novice in Bergman's films, had what would have been Farrow's role. Cries and Whispers was screened outside the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973, and Bergman gave his first ever press conference outside Scandinavia. [8] He described a recurring dream of four women in white clothing in a red room, whispering to each other. To stage Cries and Whispers, one of the most staggering movies in the history of cinema is a challenge I take without knowing where it leads, without knowing if it is possible to recreate on stage that unsurpassable experience the movie provides. Maria returns to Joakim, and Karin cannot believe Maria's claim that she does not remember their touch. [83] Variety staff praised the direction for "a hypnotic impact". Bergman himself of course was already a legend by the time this film was made, a great master who did what he wanted and what he felt, yet never lost sight of the audience. Get it at Amazon!). [56] P. Adams Sitney concluded that Cries and Whispers tells of an "Orphic transformation of terror into art, of the loss of the mother into the musical richness of autumnal color". Other websites. While Agnes' sisters remain emotionally distant, Anna comforts the suffering Agnes by baring her breasts and holding her at night. I moved my hand to her breast, which was small and slack with an erect black nipple. For the album by Dominic Duval, see. [49][50] Rueschmann traced the emotional estrangement to the women's mother, who reacts to the era's gender roles with "boredom, anger and frustration". This situation has never been known, either in reality or at the movies. Written by Bergman says: "Sometimes it is a special happiness to be a movie director. Anna, the maid, is the exception, so that she may serve as a foil for the rest of them.Harriet Andersson gives a striking performance as Agnes who is dying of cancer. [31], The magic lantern show the sisters enjoy is "Hansel and Gretel", which reveals Agnes' feelings of abandonment and her mother's favouring of Maria; according to Rueschmann, the Brothers Grimm story of sibling unity contrasts the sisters' estrangement. Rice wrote that Cries and Whispers, following The Silence (1963) and Persona (1966), was based more on psychology and individuation. Writer Ingmar Bergman. [99], The film was nominated for, and won, several other awards from critics' associations and festivals. Cries and Whispers (Swedish: Viskningar och rop, lit. Cries and Whispers on IMDb; Cries and Whispers at Rotten Tomatoes Carmen gets creative when her new boss invites her on a double date. 5 in C minor, performed by Pierre Fournier, is used in the film. Berardinelli considered Bergman's use of crimson effective in creating mood; the "natural associations one makes with this color, especially in a story like this, are of sin and blood". When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. [24] Ullmann said that every scene was shot in natural light, using large windows for indoor scenes. Thomas Vinterberg (‘Another Round’) joins starry roster of Best Director Oscar nominees for non-English language films, Q&a: Writer/Director Ivan Kavanagh Discusses Working with Andi Matichak and Luke David Blumm for Son, Frank Moreno Dies: Noted Independent Film Executive Was 82, The Best 1970s International Feature Film, Foreign Language Films Nominated for Oscar's Best Picture. A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair. Agnes' illness is identified as cancer of the womb by numerous authors. [12] Producer Bruce A. [55], According to Sitney, the statue in the prologue may be Apollo or Orpheus. [26] The final, outdoor swing scene was shot early in production so the filmmakers could have sunlight before the darker season set in. View production, box office, & company info. Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. Cries and Whispers Movie. [108] In 2017, Hallwyl Museum exhibited costumes from Cries and Whispers and other Bergman films. Season 3 | Episode 8. [33] Sitney, Rueschmann, and Irving Singer described the scene where Anna cradles Agnes as reminiscent of Pietà,[62] with Lanzagorta specifying Michelangelo's Pietà. [7], Sounds are used in other ways, with Anna's dead daughter apparently audible when Anna is near the cradle following Agnes' death. [76][77] In 2015, The Criterion Collection released a 2K restoration on Blu-ray in Region A. Karin later dines with Maria, saying that Anna was devoted to Agnes and probably deserves a memento. It was a polite affair in which he fielded questions such as which part of himself he devoted to the theatre, and which part to films. Cries and Whispers takes place at an old English manor and revolves around four women, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), Maria (Liv Ullmann), Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Kari Sylwan). He explained his choice of Harriet Andersson of Agnes: "I would very much like to have Harriet, too, since she belongs to this breed of enigmatic women". [35] In the folk tale "Cinderella", the wicked stepsisters' bleeding feet as a metaphor for menstruation is magnified by Karin's cutting of her vulva. [69], Wilson described other uses of imagery: statues filling a garden, decorations, sunlight on a clock and a view of Maria revealing the "texture" of her hair. Unlike previous Bergman films, it uses saturated colour, crimson in particular. David tells her that she has become more indifferent. [33] Agnes is seen with an open mouth and moist eyes, depicting her pain. Marisol discovers a new side of Jesse. [59] According to editor Raphael Shargel, Anna seems oblivious to the sacrilege of snacking immediately after worship and that her choice of food is the forbidden fruit. While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires. [52] Author Birgitta Steene disputed what she called Mellen's Marxist feminist analysis, cross-referencing Bergman's realistic and metaphorical films to say that they are not the product of a sexist outlook. However, Maria is repelled by Agnes' decay and her dead body. [24], Principal photography took place from 9 September to 30 October 1971. [74] According to the producer, the film made a profit of $1 million and was Bergman's biggest success in the U.S.[4] Author Tino Balio reported a U.S. gross of $1.2 million from 803 theatres, and called it Bergman's best-performing film since The Silence. Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online. This attracted some criticism, since Bergman was not an up-and-coming director in the greatest need of subsidy. In turn-of-the-century Sweden, cancer-stricken, dying Agnes is visited in her isolated rural mansion by her sisters Karin and Maria. Synopsis. [39], Film scholar Marc Gervais wrote that Cries and Whispers has no definitive solution of whether suffering and death have any meaning, citing the pastor who expresses his own doubts and fears when he eulogises Agnes. She was breathing. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and Cries and Whispers won the Guldbagge Award for Best Film and other honours. 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