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The son of a stern Lutheran pastor who eventually became chaplain to Sweden's royal family, Ingmar Bergman was raised under strict discipline, on occasion spending hours in a dark closet for infractions of his father's rigid ethical code. The traumatic experiences of his childhood were later to play a significant role in his work as a stage and film director. He fell in love with the theatre at the age of five, after seeing his first play, and at the age of nine conjured up a toy theatre under a table in his playroom. He became involved in stage production, as an actor and director, at the University of Stockholm, where he studied literature and art, and after graduation he became a trainee-director at a Stockholm theatre. During that period he wrote a number of plays, novels, and short stories, most of which he failed to have produced or published. He entered the Swedish film industry in 1941 as a script doctor.
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Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007 [6]) was an artist and not a political animal. He once said that the only political party he ever belonged to was the Party of the Scared. It is one of the ironies in his career that while his early apprentice works [7] (portraying authority figures such as headmasters, clergymen, social workers, officers, and psychiatrists) gained him the reputation of a young rebel and social iconoclast, his subsequent more mature and introspective films (which shifted the focus to religious and existential issues) were considered out of tune with the times by his fellow Swedes. When such films as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries [8],The Virgin Spring, and Winter Light established Bergman's reputation abroad as a directeur du conscience and a leading existentialist auteur du cinéma, these works were often regarded as too personal by the Swedes. Bergman was said to suffer from "a Christian hangover" and one Swedish reviewer after another was critical of Bergman's "meaningless digging in Angst". Instead they called for films depicting the lives of "ordinary decent people".
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Below are all the films Ingmar Bergman has directed to date. The list omits only theatre productions of other writers' work that Bergman directed straight to television. All the films below were commercially released Swedish language productions, unless otherwise noted. The dates given pertain to when the film was first released, theatrically or on television. Bergman's films were often released outside Sweden with various titles. The films are listed below with the most generally well-known English translation alongside the original Swedish (allied with a general preference for the UK release titles, which are usually more accurate than the US versions).
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Legendary Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89. He died on Monday morning at his home on the island of Fårö, his daughter Eva Bergman told news agency TT.
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Some thirty years later both Astrid Lindgren and Ingmar Bergman were to contribute in very different ways to the toppling of the social-democratic government which had been in power since the end of the second world war. During its political mandate Sweden had become a model welfare state. The old authoritarian school system had been dismantled; a new youth culture had gained ground which dared challenge parental authority. Sweden had become one of the most secularised societies in the world, and the centuries-old Lutheran church whose ethos had once provided the moral and religious backbone of the country, was now reduced to providing ritual services to the population on occasions of baptism, marriage and burial. To Ingmar Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister who had ... been a chaplain to the king and queen of Sweden, the social and political change that the country had undergone could hardly have been more fundamental.
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Long held to be among the world’s greatest filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman shaped international art cinema from the 1950s to the 1980s. Among his many works, Persona is often considered to be his masterpiece and is often described as one of the central works of Modernism. Bergman himself claimed that this film ‘touched wordless secrets only the cinema can discover’. The essays collected in this volume, and published for the first time, use a variety of methodologies to explore topics such as acting technique, genre, and dramaturgy. It ... includes translations of Bergman’s early writings that have never before been available in English, as well as an updated filmography and bibliography that cover the filmmaker’s most recent work.
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