After the Rehearsal (Swedish: Efter repetitionen) is a television film, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984.

Vogler falls into a reverie, remembering a day Anna's mother, Rakel, late in life, came after rehearsal to beg him to come to her apartment.

He awakes and Anna reveals the reason she has returned: she jolts him into an emotional response, rare for him, and the feelings of a young woman and an older man play out.

Ullmann is not in this film) After the Rehearsal received strongly positive reviews from critics, garnering a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

"[3] Roger Ebert gave it a full four stars and argued that the work "consists of unadorned surfaces concealing fathomless depths.