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Ingmar  Bergman
[1918-2007]

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman [1918-2007]          short profile

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"I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically. I want to
give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them
out of their complacency." — Ingmar Bergman

"I have always admired [Bergman], and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will
never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience." — Steven Spielberg


     B I O
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Ingmar Bergman entry at Wikipedia
Ingmar Bergman credits [1944-2005] on Internet Movie Database


won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "The Virgin Spring" [1960]  won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "Through a Glass Darkly" [1961]  won the Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1971  won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "Fanny and Alexander" [1982]       Ingmar Bergman won Oscars
for "The Virgin Spring" [1960] {Best Foreign Language Film},
for "Through A Glass Darkly" [1961] {Best Foreign Language Film},
the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1971;
and for "Fanny and Alexander" [1982] {Best Foreign Language Film}
— plus 9 Oscar nominations [1960-1984]

He also received
four Bodil Awards [1957-1979]
Golden Bear Award at Berlin International Film Festival [1958]
Best Director [1958] and 6 other awards [1956-1998] at the Cannes Festival
five Silver Ribbon Awards [1960-84] from Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
three Kinema Junpo Awards [1962 & 1963]
Career Golden Lion [1971] & 3 other awards [1958-83] at Venice Film Festival
four David di Donatello Awards [1974-84] and the Luchino Visconti Award [1986]
B.A.F.T.A. TV Award for Best Foreign Programme [1976]
César Award of France [1984] plus 3 nominations [1976-2005]
and a D.G.A. Lifetime Achievement Award [1990]



Movies  by  Ingmar  Bergman
Ingmar Bergman credits [1944-2005] on Internet Movie Database
Ingmar Bergman filmography page at Wikipedia
browse Ingmar Bergman on DVD at Amazon

Ingmar Bergman Life & Films book by Jerry Vermilye  "Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films" [2002]
by Jerry Vermilye

McFarland & Co. 9¾x6¾ pb [11/2006] for $39.95
McFarland & Co. 10¼x7¼ hardcover [4/2002] out of print/used
Films of Ingmar Bergman book by Jesse Kalin  "The Films of Ingmar Bergman" [2003] by Jesse Kalin
After examining six existential themes explored repeatedly in Bergman's films – judgment, abandon-ment, suffering, shame, visionary images, and a turning toward or away from others – the author shows how these themes are expressed in eight of his films: "Cries and Whispers", "Fanny and Alexander", "Naked Night", "Scenes From A Marriage". "The Seventh Seal", "Shame", "Smiles of A Summer Night", and "Wild Strawberries"
Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [10/2003] for $32.34
Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2003] for $87.83
Films of Ingmar Bergman book by Laura Hubner  
"The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light & Darkness" [2007]
by Laura Hubner

Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5½ hardcover [5/2007] for $95.00
Ingmar Bergman Life & Films book by Geoffrey Macnab  "Ingmar Bergman: The Life and Films of The Last Great European Director" [2009]
by Geoffrey Macnab

I.B. Tauris 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2009] for $29.50

Ingmar Bergman Trilogy DVD box set  "The Ingmar Bergman Trilogy" DVD Box Set [2003]
Home Vision Ent. b&W DVD set [8/2003] 4 disks for $69.99
contains 3 feature films: "Through A Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel)"
[1961], "Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna)" [1962], and "The Silence
(Tystnaden)" [1963]; extras include commentary by Peter Cowie, essays,
poster gallery, theatrical trailers, and the 5-part TV documentary "Ingmar
Bergman Makes A Movie" [1963]
Ingmar Bergman Special Collection DVD box set  "The Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection" [2004]
M.G.M. color/b&w DVD [4/2004] 6 disks for $48.99
contains 5 feature films: "Hour of The Wolf" [1968], "The Passion of Anna"
[1970], "Persona" [1967], "Shame" [1968] & "The Serpent's Egg" [1978],
plus still photos, trailers & a bonus disk of extras
Eclipse Series 1 Early Bergman DVD box set  "Early Bergman: Eclipse Series 1 " DVD Box Set [2007]
Criterion b&w DVD [4/2007] 5 disks for $40.49
contains 5 feature films: "Torment (Hets)" [script 1944]; "Crisis (Kris)" [1946];
"Port of Call (Hamnstad)" [1948]; "Thirst (Törst)" [1949] aka "Three Strange
Loves"; and "To Joy (Till glädje)" [1950]
Ingmar Bergman Four Masterworks DVD box set  "Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks" [2007]
Criterion b&w DVD set [12/2007] 4 disks for $82.49
contains 4 feature films: "Smiles of A Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende)" [1955],
"Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället)" [1957], "The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet)"
[1957], and Oscar-winning "The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan)" [1960]; extras include
trailers, commentary, stills gallery; interviews with Peter Cowie, Jörn Donner, Gunnel
Lindblom & Birgitta Pettersson; and featurettes "Ingmar Bergman On Life and Work"
and "Ingmar Bergman At A.F.I."

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"Torment" aka "Hets" [1944]
Directed by Alf Sjöberg; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Crisis" aka "Kris" [1946]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"It Rains On Our Love" [1946]
aka "Det regnar på vår kärlek"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"A Ship To India" [1947]
aka "Skepp till Indialand"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Woman Without A Face" [Sept 1947]
aka "Kvinna utan ansikte"
Directed by Gustaf Molander; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Music In Darkness" [1948]
aka "Musik i Mörker"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Port of Call" aka "Hamnstad" [1948]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Eva" [Dec 1948]
Directed by Gustaf Molander; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Prison" aka "Fängelse" [1949]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Thirst" [1949]
aka "Törst", aka "Three Strange Loves"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"This Can't Happen Here" [1950]
aka "Sånt händer inte här"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"To Joy" aka "Till glädje" [1950]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"While The City Sleeps" [1950]
aka "Medan Staden Sover"
Directed by Lars Erik Kjellgren; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Summer Interlude" aka "Sommarlek" [1951]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Divorced" aka "Frånskild" [1951]
Directed by Gustaf Molander; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Secrets of Women" aka Waiting Women [1952]
aka "Kvinnors väntan"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Sawdust and Tinsel" [1953]
aka "Gycklarnas afton"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Summer With Monika" [1953]
aka "Sommaren med Monika"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"A Lesson In Love" [1954]
aka "En lektion i kärlek"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Dreams" [1955]
aka "Kvinnodröm", aka "Journey Into Autumn"
Directed by IB; full credits from IMDb

"Smiles of A Summer Night" [1955]
aka "Sommarnattens leende"
Directed by IB; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005) full credits from IMDb

"Last Pair Out" [1956]
aka "Sista paret ut"
Directed by Alf Sjöberg; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"The Seventh Seal" aka "Det sjunde inseglet" [1957]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Wild Strawberries" aka "Smultronstället" [1957]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Magician / The Face" [1958]
aka "Ansiktet"
Set in 1846; new DVD 2010 directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Brink of Life" aka "Nära livet" [1958]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Devil's Eye" [1960]
aka "Djävulens öga"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film    "The Virgin Spring" aka "Jungfrukällan" [1960]
Directed by ; won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
full credits from IMDb

Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring" screenplay by Ulla Isaksson  
"The Virgin Spring: The Complete, Uncensored Screenplay" [1960]
by Ulla Isaksson

with 16 pages of photographs!
Ballantine Books mass pb [1960] out of print/scarce

"Through A Glass Darkly" [1961]
aka "Såsom i en spegel"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Pleasure Garden" [1961]
aka "Lustgården"
Directed by Alf Kjellin; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Winter Light" [1962]
aka "Nattvardsgästerna"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie" [1963]
5-part TV documentary detailing the making of "Winter Light "
http://www.amazon.com/Ingmar-Bergman-Makes-Movie-Collection/dp/B000NAH8ES/

"The Silence" aka "Tystnaden" [1963]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"All These Women" [1964]
aka "För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Persona" [1966]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Hour of The Wolf" [1968]
aka "Vargtimmen"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Shame" aka "Skammen" [1968]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Rite" aka "Riten" [1968 TV]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Passion of Anna" [1969]
aka "En passion"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Fårö Documentary, 1969" [1969]
aka "Fårö dokument 1969"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Touch" aka "Beröringen" [1971]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Cries and Whispers" [1973]
aka "Viskningar och rop"
Directed by ; won Academy Award for Best Cinematography full credits from IMDb

"Scenes From A Marriage" [1973]
aka "Scener ur ett äktenskap"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Magic Flute" aka "Trollflöjten" [1975]
first shown on Swedish television, followed by a cinematic release; directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Face To Face" [1976]
aka "Ansikte mot ansikte"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Serpent's Egg" [1977]
aka "Das Schlangenei"
Directed by ; starring David Carradine, Liv Ullmann, James Whitmore & Gert Frobe;
full credits from IMDb

"Autumn Sonata" aka "Höstsonaten"> [1978]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Fårö Documentary, 1979" [1979]
aka "Fårö dokument 1979"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"From The Life of The Marionettes" [1980]
aka "Aus dem Leben der Marionetten"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film    "Fanny and Alexander" [1982]
Directed by ; won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film
full credits from IMDb

"Fanny and Alexander Documentary" [1985]
aka "Dokument Fanny och Alexander"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Karin's Face" aka "Karins ansikte" [1984]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"After The Rehearsal" [1984 TV]
aka "Efter repetitionen"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"In The Presence of A Clown" [1997 TV]
aka "Larmar och gör sig till"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"The Image Makers" [2000 TV]
aka "Bildmakarna"
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb

"Faithless" aka "Trolösa" [2000]
Directed by Liv Ullmann; script by Ingmar Bergman; full credits from IMDb

"Saraband" [2003 TV]
Directed by ; full credits from IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Saraband-Liv-Ullmann/dp/B000BX0VUA/

Books  by  Ingmar  Bergman
browse Ingmar Bergman Bibliography at Amazon

Lanterna Magica {French edition} autobiography of Ingmar Bergman  Magic Lantern autobiography of Ingmar Bergman  "The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography" [1987]
by Ingmar Bergman, translation by Joan Tate

Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [5/2007] for $11.50
Penguin 8¾x6 pb [11/89] out of print/many used
Viking 9x6 pb [1988] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [2/91] out of print/used
Den Gode Viljan {Swedish edition} novel by Ingmar Bergman  Best Intentions novel by Ingmar Bergman  "The Best Intentions: A Novel" [1989] by Ingmar Bergman
An account of the romance between an upright divinity student and the daughter of an aristocratic family, based on the courtship of Bergman's own parents; he imagines their stormy love affair and life together from many old family photographs.
Arcade Publng 9x6 pb [6/94] out of print/used
Arcade Publng 9½x6½ hardcover [5/93] out of print/many used
Den Gode Viljan / The Best Intentions TV movie & feature film  "The Best Intentions" [Sweden Dec 1991, USA July 1992]
Bergman's fictional biography of his parents was filmed as a four-part series for Swedish TV, then released as a feature film; husband & wife Bille & Pemilla August won awards at Cannes; directed by Bille August; script by Ingmar Bergman; starring Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow & Ghita Nørby • Region 1 DVD not available
Fox Lorber color VHS [10/97] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb
Bilder {Swedish edition} autobiography of Ingmar Bergman  Images autobiography of Ingmar Bergman  
"Images: My Life In Film" [1994]
by Ingmar Bergman, Introduction by Woody Allen

Arcade Publng 8¼x5¾ pb [4/95] for $26.99
Arcade Publng 8¾x6½ hardcover [1/94] out of print/used
Bloomsbury hardcover [1/94] out of print/used
Conversaciones Intimas {Spanish edition 1998} novel by Ingmar Bergman  Private Confessions novel by Ingmar Bergman  "Private Confessions: A Novel" [1996] by Ingmar Bergman
Bergman's cathartic take on the bitter marriage of his parents, and his mother's long-running love affairs.
Arcade Publng 8¼x5½ pb [11/97] out of print/used
Arcade Publng 8½x5¾ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used
Private Confessions TV movie directed by Liv Ullmann  "Private Confessions (Enskilda Samtal)" TV movie
[Sweden Dec 1996, USA 1997]

Directed by Liv Ullmann; script by Ingmar Bergman; starring Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Thomas Hanzon, Samuel Fröler, Anita Björk, Vibeke Falk & Kristina Adolphson • Region 1 DVD not available
Janus Films / Home Vision color VHS [undated] for $39.99
full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia

"Sunday's Children [Paperback] BergmanSundaysChildren.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Sundays-Children-Ingmar-Bergman/dp/1559702923/

"Sunday's Children" [1992] aka "Söndagsbarn"
script by Ingmar Bergman; directed by his son Daniel Bergman; full credits from IMDb


Stageplays,  Operas,  Other  Media
Ingmar Bergman's Broadway credits

"Through A Glass Darkly" stageplay [2011]
Adapted from Bergman's 1961 film by Jenny Worton; directed by David Leveaux; starring Carey Mulligan, Chris Sarandon,
Ben Rosenfield & Jason Butler Harner; produced in 2011 at the off-Broadway Atlantic Theatre Company


Works  About  Ingmar  Bergman

"De Düva (The Dove)" short film [indep Oct 1968]
A 14-minute b&w parody of several Bergman films, spoken in a pseudo-Swedish made-up language (with subtitles); Oscar nomination
for Best Live-Action Short
• Co-produced & directed by George Coe & Anthony Lover; co-produced & written by Sidney Davis;
starring George Coe, Pamela Burrell, Sidney Davis, Madeline Kahn, Stan Rubinstein, Tom Stone, Peter Turgeon & David Zirlin
DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipediawatch film [14:02] at YouTube

"Ingmar Bergman" [1971] Dir: Stig Björkman (filmed around the time of The Touch)

"The Personal Vision of Ingmar Bergman" [Univ of Indiana Press, 1972] by Jörn Donner

"Bergman On Bergman: Interviews With Ingmar Bergman" [1974]
Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns & Jonas Sima 0306805200

"Victor Sjostrom" docufilm [VHS 1981] /630221582X/
Directed by Gösta Werner; featuring Erland Josephson & Ingmar Bergman
Sjostrom is most famous to modern cineastes for his lead role in Bergman's "Wild Strawberries" [1957]; film includes
a rare interview with Bergman, who discusses Sjostrom at length, as influence, father-figure & collaborator

"Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography" [Secker and Walberg, 1982] by Peter Cowie

"Ingmar Bergman and The Rituals of Art" [Cornell Univ Press, 1982] by Paisley Livingston

"The Passion of Ingmar Bergman" [1986] by Frank Gado /0822305860/

"Ingmar Bergman: An Artist’s Journey" [Little, Brown, 1995] edited by Robin G. Oliver
"Ingmar Bergman: An Artist's Journey On Stage, On Screen, In Print"
[Arcade Publng 1995] Roger W. Oliver (Editor) 1559702958

"Ingmar Bergman: Reflections On Life, Death, and Love" [1998], with Erland Josephson (1998) Prod: Malou von Sivers. TV4 International,
Sweden, English language version released in the US with Cries and Whispers DVD, Criterion Collection, #101, 2001

"Ingmar Bergman On Life and Work" [1999] Dir: Jörn Donner; English language version
released in the US with Wild Strawberries DVD, Criterion Collection, #139, 2002

"Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet" [McGill-Queens University Press, 1999] by Marc Gervais

Lloyd Michaels’ compilation volume "Ingmar Bergman’s Persona" [Cambridge Univ Press, 2000]

"Regissören (The Director)" novel [Bonnier, 2006] by Alexander Ahndoril
published in English translation in 2008 by Portobello

Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age  "Conversations With The Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age: At The American Film Institute" [2006] by George Stevens, Jr.
Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $23.10
interviews with 32 major writers, directors & cinematographers, including Ingmar Bergman, writer Ray Bradbury, Richard Brooks, Frank Capra, William Clothier, Stanley Cortez, George Cukor, Federico Fellini, George Folsey, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, James Wong Howe, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Gene Kelly, Stanley Kramer, Fritz Lang, David Lean, Ernest Lehman, Mervyn LeRoy, Harold Lloyd, Rouben Mamoulian, Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, George Stevens, King Vidor, Hal Wallis, Raoul Walsh, Billy Wilder, Robert Wise, William Wyler & Fred Zinnemann
Ingmar Bergman Reference Guide book by Birgitta Steene  
"Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide" [orig 1968, rev 2006]
by Birgitta Steene

"an essential and unparalleled resource on the life and work of Bergman"
Amsterdam Univ Press 9½x7¼ hardcover [5/2006] for $64.17
the author is Professor Emerita at University of Washington
Playboy Interviews / Directors  "The Playboy Interviews: The Directors" [2007]
Edited by by Stephen Randall

M Press/Dark Horse 9x6 hardcover [10/2007] for $18.36
17 interviews including Robert Altman, Ingmar Bergman, the Coen Brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee (1991), David Mamet, Roman Polanski (1971), Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino (2003), Orson Welles, Billy Wilder (1963), with Clint Eastwood and Oliver Stone each featured twice

"Ingmar Bergman At A.F.I." featurette [] - not fpound on IMDb
included on "Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks" DVD from Criterion in 2007

"Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections On His Creativity" [2007]
by Irving Singer /0262513234/
http://www.amazon.com/Ingmar-Bergman-Cinematic-Philosopher-Reflections/dp/0262513234/

"The Ingmar Bergman Archives" hardcover & DVD [2008]
Edited by Paul Duncan & Bengt Wanselius /383650023X/

"Bergman Island" [2009]
filmed in 2003 by documentarian Marie Nyreröd; in Swedish with English subtitles
http://www.amazon.com/Bergman-Island-Criterion-Collection-Ingmar/dp/B001WLMOM8/

son-in-law Henning Mankell [1948-2015] was writing a four-part Bergman bio for Swedish TV to be aired in 2011 (not found 2018)

"Searching For Ingmar Bergman" [Germany July 2018, USA Nov 2018]  2/2018
Searching for Ingmar Bergman docufilm by Margarethe von Trotta  "Auf der Suche nach Ingmar Bergman" • To mark the centennial of legendary director Ingmar Bergman's birth, noted German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta revisits the settings, scenes, people, and themes that are key to the Swedish auteur's creative cinematic legacy • Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, with Felix Moeller & Bettina Böhler; cinema-tography by Börres Weiffenbach; featuring interviewees Liv Ullmann, Ruben Östlund, Olivier Assayas, Mia Hansen-Løve, Carlos Saura, Gunnel Lindblom, Jean-Claude Carrière, Margarethe von Trotta, Julia Dufvenius, Gaby Dohm, son Daniel Bergman, Rita Russek, Stig Björkman, Katinka Faragó
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Amazon Instant Video [11/2018] not yet available
full credits at IMDbofficial German movie site
watch official trailers: 7/2018 Swedish-language trailer [1:33] at YouTube
        different 10/2018 trailer with English subtitles [2:46] at YouTube


L i n k s
Ingmar Bergman entry at Wikipedia
Ingmar Bergman credits [1944-2005] on Internet Movie Database
browse Ingmar Bergman on DVD at Amazon
Ingmar Bergman's Broadway credits
search for books by/about Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman Foundation website [est. 2005] in English or Swedish
Bergmanorama / Magic Works fansite {last update 2008}

Bergman's daughter Eva is the widow of Swedish mystery author Henning Mankell [1948-2015]


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