Ingmar Bergman

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born

July 14, 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden

died

July 30, 2007

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Ernst Ingmar Bergman 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 wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in the stark landscape of his native Sweden, and major themes were often bleak, dealing with death, illness, betrayal, and insanity.

Bergman was active for more than 60 years, but his career was seriously threatened in 1976 when he suspended a number...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 1,364 ratings · 88 reviews · 52 distinct works

	The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman, Joan Tate (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1987 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman, Marianne Ruuth (Translator), Woody Allen (Foreword by) 4.10 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Wild Strawberries 3.79 avg rating — 112 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Four Screenplays: Smiles of a Summer Night / The Seventh Seal / Wild Strawberries / The Magician 4.44 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1960 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Persona & Shame by Ingmar Bergman, Alan Blair (Translator), Keith Bradfield (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 63 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Autumn Sonata 3.76 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1978 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Winter Light 3.55 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman, مترجم: هوشنگ طاهری 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1350 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Silence 3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1970	My rating:
	The Best Intentions 3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	My rating:

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“I hope I never get so old I get religious. ”
― Ingmar Bergman, Talking with Ingmar Bergman

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“I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. ”
― Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern

tags: lies , life , truth

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“The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.”
― Ingmar Bergman

tags: fanny-and-alexander

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