TSPDT - Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

The 13th Most Influential Director of All Time (2002 MovieMaker Poll)

Survey of Filmmakers: Top 25 Directors (2005 poll by The Film Journal)

Gerald Peary's Magnificent Seven (2006)

One of the twelve greatest living narrative filmmakers - Jonathan Rosenbaum ("Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism" - 1993)

Robin Buss' Top 10 Directors

Richard Corliss' Favourite Director

►501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers

See Also

Woody Allen

Robert Altman

Michelangelo Antonioni

Robert Bresson

Carl Dreyer

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Akira Kurosawa

Jean Renoir

Eric Rohmer

Andrei Tarkovsky

Luchino Visconti

Director / Screenwriter / Producer

1918 - 2007

Born July 14, Uppsala, Uppland, Sweden

Key Production Country: Sweden

Key Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Family Drama, Marriage Drama, Reunion Films, Period Film, Ensemble Film

Key Collaborators: Sven Nykvist (Cinematographer), P.A. Lundgren (Production Designer), Max von Sydow (Leading Player), Gunnar Bjornstrand (Leading Character Player), Erland Josephson (Leading Character Player), Allan Ekelund (Producer), Bibi Andersson (Leading Character Player), Liv Ullmann (Leading Player), Ingrid Thulin (Leading Player), Erik Nordgren (Composer)

Highly Recommended: Wild Strawberries (1957), Cries and Whispers (1972)

Recommended: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), The Virgin Spring (1959), Through a Glass Darkly (1962), Winter Light (1962), The Silence (1963), Persona (1966), Shame (1968), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Fanny and Alexander (1982), Saraband (2003)

Links: [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ Ingmar Bergman Face to Face ] [ Ingmar Bergman Biography ] [ Bergmanorama ] [ Derek Malcolm's Century of Films: Wild Strawberries ] [ Bright Lights Film Journal Article ] [ Guardian Article (2005) ] [ Strictly Film School ] [ Ingmar Bergman: The Darkness Before the Dawn ] [ Baseline Biography ] [ The Passion of Ingmar Bergman ] [ Guardian Unlimited Article (2007) ] [ New York Times Article (2007) ] [ Washington Post Article (2007) ] [ Chicago Sun-Times Article (2007) ] [ Baltimore Sun Article (2007) ] [ Times Online Article (2007) ] [ Guardian Article (2007) ] [ indieWIRE Article (2007) ] [ New York Times Article (2007) ] [ Roger Ebert.com (2007) ] [ Film International Article (2007) ] [ Ingmar Bergman Fansite ] [ Washington Times Article (2008) ]

Books: [ Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films ] [ The Passion of Ingmar Bergman ] [ The Rite of Redemption: An Interpretation of the Films of Ingmar Bergman ] [ The Films of Ingmar Bergman (Cambridge Film Classics) ] [ Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide ] [ Ingmar Bergman: Magician and Prophet ] [ Images: My Life In Film ] [ Ingmar Bergman: A Critical Biography ] [ Ingmar Bergman: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) ]

DVD's: [ Amazon ]

1,000 Greatest Films: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), The Virgin Spring (1959), Winter Light (1962), The Silence (1963), Persona (1966), Hour of the Wolf (1967), Cries and Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), Fanny and Alexander (1982)

21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Saraband (2003)


	"Bergman has never set out to be less than demanding; and as an artist his greatest achievement is in digesting such unrelenting seriousness until he sees no need to bludgeon us with it...Bergman has seen no reason to abandon his faith in a select audience, prepared and trained for a diligent intellectual and emotional involvement with cinema." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)

	"Although he may be faulted for an occasional cold, humourless pessimism that may seem contrived, both his intellectual gravity and his uncompromising devotion to cinema as a serious art form are undeniable." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)

	"Bergman's unique international status as a filmmaker would seem assured on many grounds; his prolific output of largely notable work; the profoundly personal nature of his best films since the 1950's; the innovative nature of his technique combined with its essential simplicity even when employing surrealistic and dream-like treatments; his creative sensitivity in relation to his players; and his extraordinary capacity to evoke distinguished acting from his regular interpreters." - Roger Manvell (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1991)

	"Human laughter, sorrow, joy, and anxiety are analyzed and compellingly illustrated by Bergman, one of the great directors." - William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978)

	"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls." - Ingmar Bergman

	"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images." - Ingmar Bergman

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