Ingmar Bergman
Date of Birth: Jul 14, 1918
Country: Sweden
Biography: Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. His influential body of work often dealt with themes such as bleakness and despair, as well as comedy and hope, in his cinematic explorations of the human condition. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and influential filmmakers of modern cinema.
Total Credits at Criticker: 31 (Actor), 68 (Director), 63 (Writer)
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On Set Home Movies (2008) - Short Film
Rare footage from the sets of several Ingmar Bergman movies : Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), The Seventh Seal (1957), Through a Glass Darkly (1961). (SM)
Spöksonaten (2007) - TV Movie
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. (Wikipedia)
Saraband (2003) - TV Movie
In this sequel to Bergman's 1973 film "Scenes from a Marriage," Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly feels a need to see her ex-husband again. She decides to visit Johan at his old summer house in the western province of Dalarna. And so, one beautiful autumn day, there she is, beside his reclining chair, waking him with a light kiss. (Sony Pictures Classics)
Bildmakarna (2000) - TV Movie
The film director Victor Sjöström has been shooting Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Phantom Carriage. He has invited the author to Stockholm to show her a number of scenes from the film. The play is set in 1920 in a screening room at Svensk Filmindustri. In addition to Sjöström, those present include the talented cinematographer Julius Jaenzon, and the young actress Tora Teje, Sjöström's mistress and an object of Jaenzon's desire, appears. (www.ingmarbergman.se)
In the Presence of a Clown (1997) - TV Movie
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert - and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his fiancée, Pauline Thibault (imdb)
Harald & Harald (1996) - TV Movie
This ten-minute reading of excerpts from the Swedish Government's Cultural Commission turned the report into a pompous satire. (Ingmarbergman.se)
The Last Gasp (1995) - TV Movie
Bergman puts the initial performance of his first staging of his own script since the 50s at Filmhuset. (ingmarbergman.se)
Backanterna (1993) - TV Movie
This collaboration between Ingmar Bergman and the composer Daniel Börtz on an opera version of Euripides' play came about at Bergman's behest. (ingmarbergman.se)
Markisinnan de Sade (1992) - TV Movie
The setting of Madame de Sade begins in France in 1772 and ends twelve years later, nine months after the French Revolution. Six Women, one of them Madame de Sade, discuss their views and feelings of the notorious sadist and sodomist Marquis de Sade. (ingmarbergman.se)
A documentary of the making of Fanny and Alexander
De två saliga (1986) - TV Movie
Viveka and Sune meet in the cathedral of Uppsala and bond over doubts about their faith and the goodness of the world. Choosing to retreat from society, the couple leave themselves no outlet for these doubts, which eventually consume them. (SM)
Karin's Face (1984) - Short Film
A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin (imdb)
After the Rehearsal (1984) - TV Movie
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." (imdb)
Hustruskolan (1983) - TV Movie
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She is too young and innocent to realize what plans he has for her. But Agnes and Horace's young friend, the dandy Horace, have fallen in love with each other. Their love is a threat to Arnolphe's attempt at getting married. Can the cunning Arnolphe stop them? (imdb)
Fanny and Alexander (1983) - TV Mini-Series
Director Ingmar Bergman preferred this uncut version of his Oscar-winning (Best Foreign Film) masterpiece to the theatrical release. Set in early 20th century Sweden, the story centers on siblings Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and Alexander (Bertil Guve) as they adapt to their loving father's death and their new life with a coldhearted stepfather. The kids' dour situation improves with the help of their grandmother, an old friend and a little magic. (Netflix.com)
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century... (imdb)
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) - TV Movie
Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann... (imdb)
Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979) - TV Movie
A sociological portrait of a Scandinavian island called Faro, off the coast of Gotland in southeastern Sweden. Bergman was fascinated by the extremes in climate, which make the island unbearably cold and practically unlivable during the winter but quite mild and pleasant in the summer. (allmovie.com)
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home.
Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American... (imdb)
A sensitive exploration of the tragic irony of the psychiatrist suffering with mental illness. Dr. Jenny... (imdb)
De fördömda kvinnornas dans (1976) - Short Film
Four women are shown moving round a narrow and closed room. They represent 'generational' women, i.e., women who live by performing roles imposed upon them by women of earlier generations. Two of the dancers are damned souls coming alive, the third is death and the fourth a child, born unspoilt but forced into the pattern of role playing. The dancer who personifies death wears a black hood, not unlike the one Death wears in The Seventh Seal. (Ingmarbergman.se)
The Magic Flute (1975) - TV Movie
The Queen of the Night (Birgit Nordin) offers his daughter Pamina (Irma Urrila) to Tamino (Josef Köstlinger), but he has to bring her back from her father and priest Sarastro (Ulrik Cold). She gives a magic flute to Tamino and magic bells to the bird hunter Papageno (Håkan Hagegård), who follows Tamino and wants to find a wife. The duo travels in a journey of love and knowledge. (imdb)
Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. (imdb)
Misantropen (1974) - TV Movie
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates mankind because there is so much hypocrisy, deceit, and false flattery in the world.
Scenes from a Marriage (1973) - TV Mini-Series
Johan reveals to his wife Marianne that he has been having an affair and intends to leave her. She is distraught, and the film follows the trials and tribulations of the couple from that point onward. Originally a TV series screened in Sweden.
A family drama takes place in a mansion in the late 1800's. Karin and Maria watch over their sister Agnes' sickbed together with the servant Anna... (imdb)
After fifteen years of marriage to a respected surgeon, Karin finds herself living a comfortable family life with her husband and two children, but when her mother dies, a chance encounter with an American archaeologist leads to an affair.
Fårö dokument (1970) - TV Movie
Fårö Document is Ingmar Bergman's first documentary. Having recently built a house on the island in the Baltic he was taken by the people who lived there and felt the need to document their everyday lives. (Ingmarbergman.se)
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil (imdb)
The Rite (1969) - TV Movie
A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's wife. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader. (imdb)
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island... (imdb)
Ingmar Bergman's psychological study of how humans react in a situation of war. The film takes place on Gotland, where invasion forces arrives. (imdb)
An anthology film, compiling personal short films made by several Swedish directors.
A nurse is put in charge of a actress who can't talk and finds that the actresses persona is melding with hers.
The pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he goes to stay in his house for a few days... (imdb)
Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son, travel to a Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a large hotel in a small town called Timoka. (imdb)
On a cold winter's Sunday, the pastor of a small rural church (Tomas Ericsson) performs service for a tiny congregation; though he is suffering from a cold and a severe crisis of faith (imdb)
Ett drömspel (1963) - TV Movie
This made-for-television film constituted Bergman's first production of Strindberg's A Dreamplay - a play he would revisit three times more. Gunnar Ollén's Malmö crew was behind this, for its time, prestigious and costly theatre production, involving more than 40 actors and no less than 75 extras. (Ingmarbergman.se)
On an island, Karin, a recently released mentally sick young woman, is spending her vacation with her husband Martin... (imdb)
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by swineherds after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse (imdb)
The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends... (imdb)
Oväder (1960) - TV Movie
On the anniversary of Strindberg's birth, Swedish television theatre presented his chamber play Oväder, directed by Bergman. The production, which was also transmitted to Denmark and Norway, received mostly rave reviews and consolidated Bergman's standing as an outstanding television director. He was praised for his tact and sympathy in depicting old age, for his superior lighting and fine camera work and for his understanding of the intimacy of the TV medium through his use of close-ups. (Birgitta Steene)
When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports... (imdb)
The film takes place in a maternity ward within twenty-four hours. Cecilia Ellius is brought into the emergency ward after she starts haemorrhaging only three months into her pregnancy. She is suffering from a miscarriage and is brought into Room E, joining two expectant mothers, Stina and Hjördis. Stina is strong and healthy but her baby is overdue, while Hjördis is expecting an illegitimate child and has attempted an abortion.
Venetianskan (1958) - TV Movie
Playful commedia dell'arte piece by unknown 16th century author. (Ingmarbergman.se)
Rabies (1958) - TV Movie
A relay race of "scenes from human life". The recurring theme is how mankind's worst qualities spread like a disease: the person who gets rejected/humiliated/downtrodden takes it out on someone else. What goes around... (ingmarbergman.se)
After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. (imdb)
A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. (imdb)
Bakomfilm smultronstället (1957) - Short Film
This behind-the-scenes footage from the shooting of Wild Strawberries was captured by Bergman himself on 16mm. The film was shot on location in Gränna and Lund, and in the Råsunda studios in 1957. (Karagarga)
Herr Sleeman kommer (1957) - TV Movie
Stina Bergman, widow of Hjalmar Bergman, followed the various steps of this television production of her husband's work. She was reportedly very pleased with the result. So were the reviewers who felt that Ingmar Bergman was a television find with his dual experience of directing for the stage and the screen. Producers at SVT were of the opinion that this was the best theatre production so far on Swedish television. (Birgitta Steene, Ingmar Bergman, A Reference Guide)
A small town at the turn of the century. Lawer Fredrik Egerman has an ingénue-wife, Anne, and a grown-up son, Henrik, from an earlier marriage. His wife is still untouched, and instead he meets his former mistress Desiree after her performance at the theatre. They leave the theatre together and Egerman falls in one of the puddles. Desiree takes him to her home and Egerman changes into a night-shirt, owned by count Malcolm, Desirees present lover... (imdb)
Two women, a fashion editor nearing her mid-thirties and a model who's just twenty, go to Gothenburg for a photo shoot. Suzanne calls her lover, desperate to see him. Doris, the model, is stopped on the street by an elegant older man who offers to buy her the gown she is eyeing in a boutique window. Later that day, each women meets up with her man, and seduction seems imminent... (imdb)
After 15 years of marriage, David and Marianne have grown apart. David has had an affair with a patient... (imdb)
On a gray morning, a circus caravan arrives in the town where Albert the ringmaster's family lives.... (imdb)
Harry Lund, 19 years old, works at a stock-room for glass and porcelain. In the vicinity works 17 year old Monika at a stock-room for vegetables. Monika is a cheerful and happy young woman and when she sees Harry at a cafe she starts to talk with him. They fall in love with each other... (imdb)
Rakel, Marta, Karin and Annette are married to four brothers. While waiting in a summer cottage for their husbands to come home, they tell each other stories about their marriages (imdb)
Marie is a talented young ballerina. She meets Henrik, a wealthy college-boy one summer while staying at her uncles... (imdb)
Ingmar Bergman: Making Commercials (1951) - Short Film
In the early 1950's Ingmar Bergman made a series of imaginative commercials for the soap brand "Bris". (imdb)
Stig and Marta are a young married couple who play together in the same Swedish orchestra. He is ambitious and idealistic, but she is more somber and contemplative (imdb)
Political allegory aimed at the Soviet Union about the demonic Atkä Natas who spies on refugees in Sweden. Bergman has forbidden any public showing of the film. (ingmarbergman.se)
Several stories by Birgit Tengroth intertwine. In 1946, nervous ballet dancer Rut and her husband Bertil are returning to Sweden from his scholarship tour around Italy. In a Basle hotel room and on a train they quarrel, give food through the window to starving Germans, overhear wisdoms about marriage by Swedish clergymen returning from a conference, and finally make up... (imdb)
A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea. (imdb)
The heart-wrenching story of a wealthy, artistic young man who goes blind after an accident during military service and who must learn to live with his condition. (MovieMail-online.co.uk)
Berit is a young woman with problems. She is suicidal and depressed. Since it has been impossible for her to live with her mother, she has spent many years in institutions. She has now gotten a job in an industry on the condition that she can live together with her mother again. Their relationship is very tense however. One night at a dance she meets stevedore Goesta. Will he be able to give her the support she needs? (imdb)
The story of four disparate souls whose lives are bound up in the fate of an old salvage boat... (All Movie Guide)
Young Nelly lives a quiet life with her foster mother until her real mother makes an appearance. Attracted by the fancy dresses and daring adult life in Stockholm offered by her real mother, Nelly leaves the small town and discovers the darker sides of human nature... (imdb)
Put simply, the story theorizes that just because someone commits a criminal act, that someone isn't necessarily a criminal. Barbro Kollberg plays the unfortunate soul whose solitary indiscretion seriously jeopardizes his future happiness... (All Movie Guide)