Ingmar Bergman

Also known as Ernst Ingmar Bergman

Swedish director and screenwriter (1918–2007)

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Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film director, theatrical director, screenwriter, and playwright. Born Ernst Ingmar Bergman on July 14, 1918, in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden, he was educated at Stockholm University. He spoke and wrote in Swedish and German. Bergman was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His notable works include The Seventh Seal, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, and Autumn Sonata. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director, an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, an Academy Award for Best Picture, and a César Award for Best Foreign Film. Bergman had children named Lena Bergman, Eva Bergman, Anna Bergman, and Mats Bergman. His unmarried partners were Harriet Andersson and Liv Ullmann. He died on July 30, 2007.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1918
Died: 2007
Works: 113

Top works

Cris et chuchotements
Une trilogie de films
Kaṿanot ṭovot
Œuvres
Persona

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Film & TV

Directing · Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul." Bergman directed more than 60 films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which…

Known for

Marie Göranzon - när rampljuset slocknar — Self (archive footage)2026
Christina Schollin - sista föreställningen — Self (archive footage)2026
Året var 1976 — Self (archive footage)2025
Året var 1975 — Self (archive footage)2024
Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer — Self (archive footage)2022
Ingmar Bergman - Herr der Dämonen — Self (archive)2018
Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip. — Self2018
Persona: The Film That Saved Ingmar Bergman — Self (archive footage)2018
Bergman: A Year in a Life — Self (archive footage)2018
The Memory of Ingmar Bergman — Himself2018

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Sweden
Active from: 1918
Active to: 2007

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 357
Total plays: 1,029

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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a nine-time Academy Award-nominated Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of modern cinema. He directed 62 films, most of which he also wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, and Max von Sydow. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ingmar+Bergman">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology
· 1993 · cited 13,308x
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,688x
Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive <i>k</i> -mer weighting and repeat separation
· 2017 · cited 7,101x
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
· 2015 · cited 4,261x
Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Mortality in Swedish Obese Subjects
· 2007 · cited 3,852x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1918–2007
Nationality: SE, SWE
Role / Field: Screenwriters, Motion picture producers and directors, Filmregissor, Writer, Stage director, Motion pictures production and direction
Language: swe
Gender: Male

Recorded by 39 libraries

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Quotes

“Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.”
“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry — with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'”
“I think he's a very good technician. And he has something in Psycho, he had some moments. Psycho is one of his most interesting pictures because he had to make the picture very fast, with very primitive means. He had little money, and this picture tells very much about him. Not very good things. He is completely infantile, and I would like to know more — no, I don't want to know — about his behaviour with, or, rather, against women. But this picture is very interesting.”
“I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.”
“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”
“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.”

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Official website

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman är en världsberömd filmskapare, legendarisk teaterregissör och enastående författare.

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Encyclopedic overview

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both European film industry and Swedish cinema. His films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul."

Among his most acclaimed works are The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which were included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time. He was also ranked No. 8 on the magazine's 2002 "Greatest Directors of All Time" list. Other notable works include Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), A Lesson in Love (1954), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light and The Silence (both 1963), Shame (1968) which was called the director's ultimate personal vision of war, Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and Autumn Sonata (1978). His films led to international acclaim and garnered Academy Award wins and nominations throughout his career, including his personal Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and three competitive wins accepted for Best Foreign Language Film to Swedish entries.

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