’s extensive output includes around 60 films for cinema INGMAR BERGMAN and TV, 172 theatre productions, and approximately 300 writings.

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The second of three children, It all started with puppet theatre, In 1938, Bergman started work at Bergman’s reputation grew, When Bergman took over as Bergman debuted as a film Cinematographer One of Bergman’s most well- In 1960, Bergman was nominated In 1961, Bergman tried his In 1963, Bergman accepted the Against his better judgement, While filming Persona, on the In 1971, Bergman won the Bergman explained the world The somewhat vexed relation- was to The Magic Lantern, Bergman’s Bergman’s second autobio- Bergman’s fifth wife, Ingrid von On the occasion of the Cannes Ghosts, a radically re-worked Ingmar Bergman died in his Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born with which Bergman began to the theatre Mäster Olofsgården and when one of ’s head of the Helsingborg City director with Crisis. ‘But this shot the for Bergman’s known films,, for his first Academy Award. hand at a new medium, opera, post as head of The Royal Bergman did not cut back on small island of Fårö in the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial of television as ‘Quite simply ship between Ingmar Bergman mark his return to Sweden. first autobiography, was a hugely graphy was released, Images: Rosen, died. It was the first of Festival’s 50th anniversary, a version of Ibsen’s drama, was home at Fårö on 30 July 2007, on 14 in Uppsala north experiment at the age of 11, in . His first pro- foremost children’s theatres, Theatre at the age of 26, he first shooting day was the first film , pulling premiered. Bergman said about He would be nominated for staging The Rake’s Progress Dramatic Theatre. His first play his film work while working at Baltic Sea, an island Bergman Award, which is presented the most amazing thing. and Sweden came to a head in The costs and risks were the revealing and honest piece of My Life in Film. This book Bergman’s marriages not to ‘Palme of Palmes’ was awarded where Bergman rounded off at age 89. Bergman was buried of Stockholm. His father was and which he developed to a duction was Sutton Vane’s Sagoteatern (Swedish for fairy- became the youngest head one in my cinematic life. I had off an amazing 180-degree the production: ‘It’s better to do eight more. Though he never at the Royal Theatre (now the in charge was the European The , had discovered in 1961 when by the Board of Governors It opens up the whole world.’ 1976, when he was arrested by principal reason why the film writing. In general terms, how- project began as a series of end in divorce. His very last to Ingmar Bergman for his his theatrical career, in 2002. in the cemetery of Fårö Church Erik Bergman, a conservative highly sophisticated extent Outward Bound. ‘ is no tale theatre), opened up in 1941 of a major theatre in Europe. made meticulous preparations. pan of Åke Grönberg holding this than a bad comedy. I don’t won one for best director or Royal Swedish Opera). Although premiere of Edward Albee’s and he ended up paying the looking for a location to shoot of the Academy of Motion was the police in the middle of re- was released in two versions, ever, Bergman’s unparalleled conversations with Bergman’s work, Three Diaries (2004), was entire body of work in film. Long before Ghosts, many on 18 August 2007, in a private parish minister with strict ideas prior to his entry into ‘real’ liberator’ Bergman wrote in and staged plays at Stockholm’s Having recently lost its state Every scene was carefully a pistol. It was the first time give a damn about the money.’ best writer, three of his films it was a great success, it was not Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? price: double pneumonia and Through a Glass Darkly, he Picture Arts and Sciences to his first, but not his last, hearsing The Dance of Death the five hour TV series originally successes as a film, theatre editor, Lasse Bergström. It was a compilation by Bergman and His daughter productions were described ceremony. He had requested of parenting. His mother was theatre in the late . the programme notes for his Civic Centre, Bergman was cho- funding, the theatre itself was thought out, every camera they collaborated, and the shot Four other films were released won the Academy Award until The Bacchae in 1991 that It was to prove a very demand- acute penicillin poisoning. found an area of land that ‘creative producers whose television series. In fact, the at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, planned, and the shorter and television director have in part prompted by Bergman’s his daughter Maria von Rosen accepted the award on his as his last. In fact, he even that the from Bach’s Karin Bergman, a qualified nurse. Right from the outset Bergman amateur debut, in which he sen as its head. The first play on the brink of ruin. His task was angle prepared. In theory I made such an impression on that same year, with Bergman for Best Foreign Language Bergman returned to opera on ing job indeed: with the entire In the spring of 1965, he was he subsequently purchased bodies of work reflect a con- transition to television was to and accused of tax evasion. cinema version (197 minutes) clearly overshadowed Ingmar dissatisfaction with the earlier of Ingrid’s diaries during her behalf in the presence of started directing another theatre Cello Suite No. 5 be played In many contexts Bergman has was inspired by his house gods, also played a part as death’s he directed was The Tinder Box. to bring back the audiences, knew exactly what I wanted Bergman that he is reputed as director, writer or co-writer. Film: , 1960, the stage. In between that time, company in need of reorgani- admitted to Sophiahemmet, and had a house built on. He sistently high quality of motion be almost absolute. Virtually It turned out that he was inno- which was primarily intended Bergman the author. Dubious interview book Bergman on last months, beginning with twenty-eight previous project in 2003, from which he at his funeral. It resounds spoken of his upbringing as Alf Sjöberg and Olof Molander, henchman. Rumours about In total, Bergman staged seven and consequently, the rep- to do. In reality, everything to have said that he wanted The Seventh Seal won the Jury Through a Glass Darkly, 1961, he did direct sation, he found himself in an the royal hospital, where he stayed there as often as his picture production.’ Bergman all of Bergman’s films since cent (the inquiries were soon for sale on the international as a document, masterful Bergman, in which he felt he her cancer diagnosis in 1994 Palme d’Or winners. withdrew. In an interview with like an echo from his last strict, with occasional moments whose production of A Dream Bergman’s rigorous rehearsal productions at the Civic Centre. ertoire became ‘shamelessly went straight to hell.’ Nykvist for all his films going Special Prize at Cannes and was and Fanny and Alexander, for television in 1975. Bergman ‘insoluble and incomprehensi- beganto write the screenplay Stockholm duties would allow was not present at the awards Scenes from a Marriage have dropped), but in the public market. Fanny and Alexander as literature, the book had a had been manipulated by the and ending with her death the Marie Nyreröd, he spoke of his film – Saraband. of tenderness, intimacy and love. Play (1935) Bergman described regime, his loose language and populist’, according to Bergman forward. For production com- nominated for the Palm d’Or. 1983. The latter took home had directed musical theatre bly chaotic situation.’ Bergman for Persona, as he put it until 2003, when he sold his ceremony. , with been made for television, consciousness he cut a tainted has often been regarded as a non-chronological structure, interviewers. Using his books following year. The book’s unwillingness to quit. ‘When it as ‘the bedrock of all theatre violent tempers quickly spread, himself. One year later, the pany reasons, Nykvist did not four out of before, with his 1954 production directed an average of one play ‘mainly to keep my hand in apartment in Stockholm and whom Bergman had a daughter, whether series (Face to Face, figure. Bergman suffered a summary of Bergman’s entire with altering chapters on child- and filmmaking diaries, foreword read in part: ‘We comes to the theatre, it’s been experiences’. Alongside his giving rise to the nickname that theatre had its state funding re- resume work with Bergman six nominations. His films also of The Merry Widow in Malmö, each year until his departure the creative process.’ moved permanently to Fårö. accepted the award on his behalf. Fanny and Alexander) or one- nervous breakdown, and after career, and it undoubtedly hood, theatre work, the tax Bergman analysed a number have not attempted to hide or much worse. I’m far more puppet theatre, at this time he stuck with him throughout his stored. The same year, 1944, until The Virgin Spring in 1960. generated Academy Awards but this was the first time he in 1976. He seldom left the island after offs (The Magic Flute, Saraband). a short stay in hospital he left contains most of the familiar affair in 1976, marriage crises, of his own films, grouped excuse our own shortcomings attached to the theatre than also made up ‘film’ stories with career, the ‘demon director’. he wrote his first film script, for his colleague Sven Nykvist, had tried his hand at opera. that. Bergman was to shoot six Admittedly, and for various the country for Germany where elements from his other works: and encounters with artists like into thematic units. or our helplessness. This is no to film. I’d absolutely love to the laterna magica his brother Torment. As there was no formal who received awards as Best films and one television series reasons, they have all gone on he spent a number of years in religion, the family, the role , Greta Garbo, literary work, but a document. continue with the theatre. But had received for Christmas, but education for filmmaking, Cinematographer on the on Fårö, where he also built a cinema release, but they were voluntary exile. of the artist. In April 1984, and Herbert von Karajan. Not a book, but a testimony.’ I know that I’m not going to.’ which Bergman took hold of Bergman learned by partici- Bergman-directed films fully functional studio. intended for television. Fanny and Alexander was Bergman retired from film- through a trade. pating on and off the film set. and awarded four Oscars: for Best making in December 2003, Fanny and Alexander. Foreign Language Film, Best after the release of Saraband. Beppo the Clown, A Midsummer MOVIE Night’s Dream, Cinematography (Sven Nykvist), Death of Punch, THEATRE Little Red Riding Hood, Best Art Direction/Set Decora- Torment Sniggel Snuggel/The Three Stupidities The Ascheberg Widow WRITINGS at Wittskövle, tion (Anna Asp and Susanne Encounter with Punch, The Tinder Box, The Tinder Box, [Notes on Katinka] A Midsummer When the Devil [Workbook No 5], Lingheim), and Best Costume Night’s Dream, Makes an Offer, [Workbook No 6], The Ghost Sonata, The Hotel Room Crisis, [Workbook No 7], Design (Marik Vos-Lundh). In Bethlehem, The Father, Macbeth, It Rains on Our Lov [Workbook No 56], , The Merchant of Venice, Bluebird Little Red Riding Hood, Caligula, [The Adventures of Woman Without a Face, Sawdust and Tinsel The Hangman/ Hans Christian Andersen The Gambling Hall/ Rachel and the Macbeth, Punch and the Libertine Geography and Love, A Ship to India Summer Interlude, Last Couple Out Mr Sleeman Is Coming, play in Stockholm! Mr Sleeman Cometh Cinema Doorman, A Caprice, The Golden Chariot, in the Countryside], Music in Darkness, The Pelican, Niels Ebbesen, The Day Ends Early, Divorced, A Lesson in Love The Poor Bride, The Seventh Seal, The Venetian, [Notes on The Father], School, a 12-year hell, Requiem, Waiting Women The Dutchman, The Man Who A Confession, or, Port of Call, Swanwhite, Afraid to Live, Just Before Awakening, The Dutchman, Bris Soap Commercial The Apple-Tree Table, Everyman, Wild Strawberries, Rabies, LivedTwice, [Notes on The Torment: Knife on a boil, Summer Blood Wedding, Unto My Fear, Eve Erik XIV, The Black Glove, Ghost Sonata], [The Death of Jack The Fun Fair, Playing with Fire, The Rose Tattoo, The Merry Widow, The Minister of Uddarbo, Brink of Life, Autumn Rhapsody/ A short tale about one of Jacobowsky and Farewell interview, There Are Crimes Six Characters in The Romantics, the Ripper], Dancing on the Pier, Grandmother The Hour-Glass/ [The Circus], U-boat 39, Jack the Ripper’s earliest the Colonel, Magic, Light in the Shack, and Crimes, Search of an Author, Twilight Games, Dreams, Night Light The Magician Encounter, and Our Lord, From the Life of Christmas/Advent, The Pot of Broth, [I’m getting worn out, childhood memories, Come Up Empty, To Joy, [Engineer Holm’s house], When the Devil Kriss-Krass-Filibom: New Unto My Fear, The Country Girl, The Day Ends Early, The Castle The Ghost Sonata, Smiles of a Cheaters, He Who Has Nothing, The Devil’s Eye, An evening of cabaret thought Punch], About filming a play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the Marionettes Return, Makes an Offer, A kind of dedication, Year’s Cabaret, Lodolezzi Sings, Prison, High Tension, Summer Night Through a Glass Darkly, Episode, The Waves Summer, The Restless Heart, [Workbook No 15], Wood Painting The Prisoner, The Legend, Storm, for the entire family, [Punch got a Probably a genius, Portrait of a Madonna, My Beloved, Yvonne, The Melody A Beautiful Rose [On Rabies], The Pelican, Macbeth, Thirst While the City Sleeps The Ball, Pleasure Garden [Through the Christmas tree], The best novelette, The City, The Crown Bride, Pages from a Non- The making of film, The Misanthrope, Ur-Faust, The Virgin Spring Lucky Per’s Journey that Disappeared [Workbook No 13], The Tunnel, Fårö Document 1979 Princess of Burgundy open window], The Death of Punch, Jack Among the Actors, [Workbook No 11], Rabies, Mother Love, The Restless Heart, A Shadow/Medea, Existent Diary, Dom Juan, The First Warning Playing with Fire, On ‘Lucky Per’s Journey’, The magic country fair, The People of Värmland Murder at Barjärna, [On The Ghost Sonata], Peer Gynt The People of Värmland (Prinzessin von Burgund) From the Life of the Rain, Our Town, [‘The Travelling Compan- [Workbook No 14], La voix humaine Face to Face, Hedda Gabler, [How long has she [Notes on [Workbook No 49], Reduce Morals, Thieves’ Carnival A Streetcar Divine Words, Sawdust and Tinsel, Leah and Rachel, Text on Victor Sjöström, The Seagull, A , ion’: Bergman’s adapta- In Grandmother’s House, Notes on The City, The Night’s [Notes on The Ingmar’s self-portrait, Dialogue, [Notes on a Dream], Sally and Freedom Worms (Aus dem Leben Karin’s Face, Goldberg Variations, [Workbook No 3], been like this], Niels Ebbesen], It Rains on Our Love, Named Desire Six questions for taken from Bergman’s Cries and Whispers The Dance of the Tartuffe Miss Julie, tion], [Little street in a mining The Legend Cinematograph, The Three-Penny Opera Burden of Guilt, The Tale of Poor Bride], The Monk Walks in the The Rake’s Progress , der Regenwürmer), A year’s repertory has Ruth, Bo Dahlin’s Notes Con- Ingmar Bergman, The Aphorisms of I want to be part journal, The Magic Flute Damned Women [Theatre crisis, Nora/Julie/Scenes , The Winter’s Tale [Workbook No 4] [A scene from [Workbook No 8], town: a complete scene], The comedy [Notes on High Tension], the Eiffel Tower, Meadow, Teahouse of , The Misanthrope, Fanny and Alexander, John Gabriel Borkman come to an end, To the Audience! [Beppo Wish List, Letter from The Fish, cerning His Parents’ Easter [Workbook No 16], [On The Seventh Seal], Ingmar Bergman, of the game, Each Film is My Last, [This Incident], The Silence, Fårö Document, theatre crises], from a Marriage A Hearsay, Faithless the Punch Family], about Jenny, Three centipede feet, the August Moon, Blessgiving, Hedda Gabler, Twelfth Night I’m Leaving Sweden, Document Fanny Monologue, Events, the Clown], [Workbook No 9], Torment, Ingmar Bergman, [Notes on Thirst], Ingmar Bergman Inter- The Ritual The Ghost Sonata I Like It Almost Propos, A Matter of the Soul [Notes on In Bethlehem], [Notes from on location], Divorced, Divorce, [Notes on Punch’s [Workbook No 17], [Notes on The Wild Strawberries, Rubbish in Gothenburg, Dear Allers [The Sunday Fisher], A Dream Play, The Lie The Touch [Notes on angst], [Eastertide in the King Lear and Alexander , [‘Kärringbroö,’ read The Puzzle [Everyone forgets views Himself Before Wood Painting The Face of Bergman, Three Knives from Wei The Petrified Prince, Jeder Mensch hat Paradise Square, Every Day, The Time and the Room, When Will You Experimental theatre!, To the Audience![Red [The mist], Autumnal Thoughts, The Trumpet Player The Film about Birgitta- Fat Tuesday], Misunderstanding], Woyzeck Comments on Series Z, Year 1233], Three Wounds Images: My Life in Film, The Bacchae, [Workbook No 48], the notice board by [Workbook No 12], Represents Eros, one factor…], [The Hotel], [Good evening, sister], the Opening of Summer A Lesson in Love, [Notes on The [Notes on Ur-Faust], Family-Journal!, [On] Through a Wood Painting Don Juan, (Episode ‘Daniel’) A Dream Play, Show Scenes from a Marriage Traume, Wünsche, (Drei Schwestern) A spiritual matter, The beginning of A Dream Play, Quit, Ingmar?, Mary Stuart, Experimental theatre... Riding Hood], and Our Lord, Carolina, Joakim Naken, Dear Eva and Harriet, Anders de Wahl Dear frightening [Bergman responds Persona [Notes on Twelfth Night], The Serpent’s Egg [Notes on Tartuffe], for Julie…, The Last Cry John Gabriel Borkman the bridge.], The Fourth Story of [Now Joakim knows that Waiting Women, with Monika, Misanthrope], audience!, Glass Darkly, , Horrified and sick, I wit- I would like to kill you, Bedürfnisse, Speech in Dallas, some sort of memoir, [Workbook No 41], Peer Gynt again, The keys of the Tivoli: Five Scenes, or A Glimpse into Rachel and the Cinema [This drama plays or The Suicide, While the City Sleeps, Play with pearls, [The Cannibal and the last role, [Notes on The [Editorial 1959], The Legend, to the Ibsen criticism], Tiny Alice Six Characters in Hedda Gabler My Mother’s Diaries The Wild Duck To Damascus Love Without Lovers, [Notes on Yvonne, Fanny and Alexander, [Notes on The The Ghost Sonata Kingdom of Heaven, Matheus Manders, Puma’s been drinking], Come up Empty: The dilemma of The School for Wives/ ness the TV witch-hunt, [Workbook No 30], A Dream Play Hedda Gabler: Bergman’s Szenen einer Ehe, [Notes on John Long Day’s [Notes on The Time Saraband, Outward Bound [Speech on some of them, the Future, Doorman: A Play in out on stage], Operation/Film Shooting, Summer with Monika, – The Police Chief], Death and the , [Notes on Peer Gynt], People of Värmland], A Page from My Diary, The Pleasure Garden, Search of an Author Shame Reveal Who She Was, It Was Only a Pleasure!, The Serpent’s Egg, Princess of Burgundy], Commentary on Sunday’s Children, [Workbook No 58], Winter’s Tale], , [Notes on Lucky or, About a Murderer, Comedy in three acts, Due to Certain The Summer Interlude, Murder at Barjärna, filmmaking, The Devil’s Eye, Who’s Afraid of Trois textes pour Venise: The Snakeskin, Critique of the School [Notes on A [Notes on The [Notes on The (Ein Traumspiel) Isabella, adaptation, School for Wives Gabriel Borkman 1985], [Notes on A Gotska Sandön Journey into Night A Doll’s House and the Room], In the Presence 20th Century Rosmersholm The Hunchback children’s theatre], Conversation between Three Acts, [Speech on the aes- Svenstedt and Draft of a TV-film about Julie: Bergman’s Document Fanny Ghosts: Bergman’s [Workbook No 1], [Draft, 1940’s], Dream in July, The Drama of Paul, Circumstances, Performing a Play, Dreams, The Seventh Seal, [Workbook No 50], The Magician, [The Curtain Goes Up], Winter Light, My Pianist, Pour ne pas parler, for Wives, Masquerade, [Workbook No 54], Dream Play 1970], [Notes on Show], Wild Duck], A dream play, Magic Flute], [Workbook No 32], After the Rehearsal, Dream Play 1986], , [Notes on The Bacchae], Sunday’s Children, Private Confessions, Harald & Harald of a Clown [Notes on The of Bergman, Per’s Journey], The Novella, a head of finance and a True Story: [About The Three- So you want to be thetics of film, and The Girls’ Room, [Notes on The Virginia Woolf? Downhill with The Corridor, the death and resurrection [Notes on Ein [Notes on Three Sisters From the Life of the adaptation, Dom Juan and Alexander, [Notes on The The Magic Lantern, [Notes on Long Day’s My Danish Angel, The Last Cry, The Misanthrope, adaptation, Ghosts Saraband Three Diaries, of Notre Dame, [Welcoming speech Swedish film and [Workbook No 2], Theatrics in town, The Opera, theatre manager, Marie My Child Is Mine, Not just to entertain, Novella for Film, To Joy, Penny Opera], in the movies?, The Magic Show, its conditions], Wood Painting, Last Couple Out, [Workbook No 51], [Workbook No 53], Virgin Spring], Through a Glass Darkly, [Workbook No 20], The Silence, Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, The Investigation The Ritual, The Lie, The Touch, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Merry Widow, Face to Face, of Jesus, [Workbook No 31], Traumspiel], (Drei Schwestern)], Marionettes, [Workbook No 36], Blessed Ones], [Workbook No 39], Journey into Night], From Sperm to Spook, About the Bacchae, The Best Intentions Workbook, The Bacchae, Faithless, Image Makers], [Notes on Mary Stuart], Particular central features The art of for the premiere of On Why the Gangster theatre: Collaboration Smiles of a [I Have My Doubts Sixtyfour minutes [Notes on Ein [Journal notes, 1983], Preface to a translation, DÅSÅ: Three Scenes [Notes on In the Presence Yvonne, Princess [Notes on John Rosmersholm: The Pelican/Island Ingmar Bergmans in Selma Lagerlöf’s writing [On Outward Bound] The Tivoli cinema viewing The Tinder Box] The Lonely Writes Poetry We have to do Macbeth! [On Reduce Morals] or opposition A Ship to India As It Happened We look at the movies Divorced The City The Inventor We are like the circus! [On Twilight Games] Summer Night Night Light [Workbook No 52] [Notes on Ur-Faust] [Workbook No 19] [Workbook No 18] [They Leave Town] [Workbook No 21] about the Film School] [Workbook No 22] [Persona] [Workbook No 23] [Workbook No 24] A Passion with Rebecka [Workbook No 26] [Workbook No 27] Essential and nonessential [Workbook No 28] [Workbook No 29] [Workbook No 33] Autumn Sonata [Workbook No 34] [Workbook No 35] Fårö Document 1979 [Workbook No 37] Puppenheim] [Notes on Dom Juan] [Notes on King Lear] [Workbook No 44] [Workbook No 38] by Ulrika Nordmark [Workbook No 40] Madame de Sade] [Workbook No 43] [Workbook No 58] Madame de Sade of a Clown The Winter’s Tale of Burgundy Harald & Harald [Workbook No 45] [Workbook No 46] Storm Weather [Workbook No 55] Gabriel Borkman 2001] Bergman’s adaptation of the Dead Sommar 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004