Synopsis: It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one that picks up the souls of the dead... David Holm, one of the three drunkards, dies at the last stroke of midnight..
New digital transfer, restored in collaboration with the Archival Film Collections of the Swedish Film Institute
Two scores, one by acclaimed Swedish composer Matti Bye and the other by the experimental duo KTL
Audio commentary featuring film historian Casper Tybjerg
Interview with Ingmar Bergman excerpted from the 1981 documentary Victor Sjöström: A Portrait, by Gösta Werner
The Bergman Connection, an original visual essay by film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie on The Phantom Carriage’s influence on Bergman
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by screenwriter and filmmaker Paul Mayersberg