Round 7: Tossup 15

A director from this country cast Lillian Gish as a woman who accidentally kills the cattleman Wirt before a cyclone. The axe scene from The Shining drew on a 1921 film from this country about a drunkard who is visited on New Year’s Eve by his dead friend. A film from this country ends as an old man remembers his parents fishing, then smiles at the memory in bed. A director from this country made the silent films The Wind and The (*) Phantom Carriage and starred in a film whose many dream sequences (10[1])include one in which he is pulled into a coffin that falls off a hearse. An aging professor travels to accept an honorary degree in that film (10[1])from this country, (10[1])which includes the director’s mainstays Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow. For 10 points, name this home country of the director of Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman. ■END■

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