Editing Wild Strawberries (film) (section)

===Development===
Bergman wrote the screenplay of ''Wild Strawberries'' in Stockholm's [[Karolinska University Hospital|Karolinska Hospital]] (the workplace of Isak Borg) in the late spring of 1957; he'd recently been given permission to proceed by producer [[Carl Anders Dymling]] on the basis of a short synopsis. He was in the hospital for two months, being treated for recurrent gastric problems and general stress. Bergman's doctor at Karolinska was his good friend Sture Helander who invited him to attend his lectures on psychosomatics. Helander was married to [[Gunnel Lindblom]] who was to play Isak's sister Charlotta in the film. Bergman was at a high point of his professional career after a triumphant season at the Malmö City Theatre (where he had been artistic director since 1952), in addition to the success of both ''[[Smiles of a Summer Night]]'' (1955) and ''[[The Seventh Seal]]'' (1957). His private life, however, was in disarray. His third marriage was on the rocks; his affair with [[Bibi Andersson]], which had begun in 1954, was coming to an end; and his relationship with his parents was, after an attempted reconciliation with his mother, at a desperately low ebb.<ref name=Images/>{{rp|p17}}

Casting and [[pre-production]] progressed rapidly. The completed screenplay is dated 31 May. Shooting took place between 2 July 1957 and 27 August 1957.<ref>{{cite web|title=Smultronstället (1957) - Filming Locations|url=http://www.sfi.se/en-GB/Swedish-film-database/Item/?itemid=4549&type=MOVIE&iv=RecordingPlace|website=Swedish Film Institute|language=sv}}</ref> The scenes at the summer house were filmed in [[Saltsjöbaden]], a fashionable resort in the Stockholm archipelago. Part of the nightmare sequence was shot with predawn summer light in [[Gamla stan]], the old part of central Stockholm. Most of the movie was made at SF's studio and on its back lot at Råsunda in northern Stockholm.<ref name=ingbergf2f/>