Szenen einer Ehe
He based the lead characters after Peter and Katarina in his 1973 miniseries "Scenes from a Marriage". Bergman's initial conception for the project was titled "Love for No Lovers", but in the rewrite culminating in "From the Life of the Marionettes" Peter and Katarina were reimagined as a German couple distinct from the Swedish characters in "Scenes from a Marriage". Bergman explained the final title: