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Visiting the clinic where her mother is ill, she finds her dead and, overcome with sorrow, is seen by David, an American archaeologist. In a small town in Sweden, Karin is a housewife, married to a hospital physician named Andreas and bringing up their two children. It has since had a limited rerelease by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2011 and a home media release by The Criterion Collection in 2018. The film received mixed to negative reviews and failed at the box office. Gould, cast over Paul Newman and Robert Redford, believed Bergman's screenplay was semi-autobiographical. Cinematographer Sven Nykvist shot it in Eastmancolor. Produced by ABC Pictures, The Touch was Bergman's first English-language film, but shot on the island of Gotland in Sweden in 1970. It contains references to the Virgin Mary and the Holocaust. The film tells the story of an affair between a married woman and an impetuous foreigner. The Touch ( Swedish: Beröringen) is a 1971 romantic drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Elliott Gould, and Sheila Reid.