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Something wrong?He made films about God's silence, death's certainty, and the impossible distance between two people in the same room - and somehow those films became landmarks that half the world's directors still measure themselves against.
A life in dates
Ingmar Bergman CompleteSeries2000
FaithlessFilm, Writer1995Honorary Doctor of the University Lille-IIIAward1992Guldbagge Award for Best ScreenplayAward1991Praemium ImperialeAward1988BAFTA FellowshipAwardEuropean Film Academy Lifetime Achievement AwardAward1986Doctor Honoris Causa from the Paris-Sorbonne UniversityAward1984César AwardAward
Fanny and AlexanderSeries, 1984Director, Writer1983“I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man.”In their words26 June 1983As quoted in "Ingmar Bergman: Summing Up A Life In Film" by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times Magazine (26 June 1983)Guldbagge Award for Best DirectorAward1982
Fanny and AlexanderFilm, Director, Writer1981“I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.”In their words7 May 1981As quoted in "Ingmar Bergman Confides in Students" New York Times (7 May 1981)
The Guldbagge AwardsSeries, 19811978
The South Bank ShowSeries
Autumn SonataFilm, 1978Director, Writer1976Goethe Prize of the City of FrankfurtAward1975
The Magic FluteFilm, Director, Writer1973
Scenes from a MarriageSeries, Director, Writer1972“I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being.”In their wordsAs quoted in Ingmar Bergman Directs (1972) by John Simon
Cries and WhispersFilm, 1972Director, Writer1971“I think he's a very good technician. And he has something in Psycho, he had some moments.”In their wordsOn Alfred Hitchcock in an interview with John Simon (1971)1970Irving G. Thalberg Memorial AwardAward
Play for TodaySeries, 1970Writer1969
The Passion of AnnaFilm, Director, Writer1968
The Dick Cavett ShowSeries1965Erasmus PrizeAward1964Guldbagge Award for Best DirectorAward
All These WomenFilm, 1964Director, Writer1963
Ingmar Bergman Makes a MovieSeries1961
Through a Glass DarklyFilm, Director, Writer1960“People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims.”In their wordsFour Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman (1960)1958Cannes Best Director AwardAwardGolden BearAward
Brink of LifeFilm, 1958Director, Writer1957“Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.”In their words"Ingmar's self portrait" (1957) as quoted in "Who is he really?"1954
A Lesson in LoveFilm, Director, Writer1952
Waiting WomenFilm, Director, Writer1948
BambiSeries
Port of CallFilm, 1948Director, Writer1944
TormentFilm, Writer1918Born14 July 1918Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 10
, I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant.
I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man.
I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Filmography 40
BLBergman: A Year in a Life
SASarabandFAFaithless
TIThe Best Intentions
ARAfter the RehearsalFAFanny and Alexander
FMFrom the Life of the MarionettesASAutumn Sonata
TEThe Serpent's Egg
FFFace to FaceTFThe Magic Flute
SMScenes from a MarriageCWCries and Whispers
TTThe TouchTAThe Passion of Anna
TRThe Rite
HWHour of the Wolf
SHShame
PEPersonaAWAll These Women
WLWinter Light
TSThe SilenceTDThrough a Glass Darkly
TSThe Virgin Spring
TEThe Devil's Eye
TMThe MagicianBLBrink of Life
TSThe Seventh Seal
WSWild Strawberries
SNSmiles of a Summer Night
DRDreamsALA Lesson in Love
SMSummer with Monika
STSawdust and TinselWWWaiting Women
SISummer Interlude
TJTo JoyPCPort of Call
CRCrisisTOTorment279 credits on file
Television 16
BVBergman's VideoICIngmar Bergman Complete
TIThe Best IntentionsFAFanny and AlexanderTAThe Guldbagge AwardsTSThe South Bank Show
FFFace to Face
CFConfessions of a FoolSMScenes from a MarriagePTPlay for TodayTSThe Dick Cavett Show
DJDon JuanIMIngmar Bergman Makes a MovieBABambiAwards
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Sweden on 14 July 1918 and spent six decades turning the camera inward, writing and directing more than 60 films that treated the psyche and the soul as legitimate dramatic territory. The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, both from 1957, established him internationally; Persona in 1966 pushed form itself to the edge. He worked with a tight company of actors - Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson - and shot most of his later films on the island of Fårö, forging a creative partnership with cinematographers Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist. Fanny and Alexander in 1982 closed his cinema career on a softer note. He also directed more than 170 plays and led both Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre and Germany's Residenztheater. He died on 30 July 2007, leaving a body of work that remains profoundly personal and unavoidable.
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