Bergman's great political film, Shame

Ingmar Bergman's great film fro 1968, Shame, was, I would suspect, his attempt at a response to those, including many on the American left, who'd criticized him for the apolitical nature of his many great films from the 50s and 60s, beautiful chamber dramas sometimes set in the middle ages, in any event, largely remote from the issues that were ricking the world in Europe and America in the 1960s. So in this terrific film his takes on some of his typical material, the strains and break-up of a marriage, and puts it in the context of war and revolution. The married couple, Eva (Liv Ullman) and Jan (Max von Sydow) are living on an island (a large one it seems) in an unnamed country; they are living in near poverty on a small farm that they can barely manage; we learn that they are classical musicians cast aside as their orchestra was disbanded; Eva is much tougher than Jan, who suffers from some kind of depression and over-riding anxeity. We soon see why: there as an ongoing war, in which it seems that their "island" has been taken over by an occupying force - somewhat like the Germans in Norway in WWII - while a rebel force is attacking the island to "liberate" it, the the liberators seems to be roughly based on the Soviets or at least on some violent and dangerous army of occupation. Eva and Jan are, of course, caught in the middle - threatened and occupying army, accused by the rebels of being collaborators. There are some hugely powerful "intimate" scenes, too many to list, and some great moments of action and mayhem (the destruction of their small farm is particularly powerful) and of the flight across the island hoping to board a fishing boat that may take them to safety. Sven Nyquist's photography is great as always, including some powerful scenes shot w/ a handheld camera, unusual for Nyquist I think. Not sure if this film assuaged Bergman's critics, but it stands up well as a powerful film, just as scary today as it was 50 years ago.