In the Presence of a Clown

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{{Infobox television

|image = Larmar och gör sig till.jpg

|director = Ingmar Bergman

|producer = Måns Reuterswärd
Pia Ehrnvall

|writer = Ingmar Bergman

|starring = Erland Josephson
Börje Ahlstedt
Marie Richardson
Pernilla August
Ingmar Bergman (uncredited)

|music =

|cinematography = Tony Forsberg
Irene Wiklund

|editor = Sylvia Ingemarsson

|network = Sveriges Television

|released = {{Start date|1997|11|01|df=y}}

|runtime = 119 minutes

|country = Sweden

|language = Swedish

|budget =

}}

In the Presence of a Clown ({{langx|sv|Larmar och gör sig till}}) is a television film by Ingmar Bergman, recorded for Swedish television in 1997 with Bergman as a director. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/10315/year/1998.html |title=Festival de Cannes: In the Presence of a Clown |access-date=3 October 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} It tells the story of a professor named Carl, who has been found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to treatment in a mental ward. In the hospital he befriends a man named Osvald, and they attempt to make and promote a film.

The film was produced for Sveriges Television from Bergman's 1994 play of the same title.