Ingmar Bergman

Name: Musik i mörker
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Released: 1948

Country Sweden

Born 1918-07-14

Died 2007-07-30

Birthplace Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Defining Films

Scenes from a Marriage

1973

The Silence

1963

Smiles of a Summer Night

1955

Profile

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.

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In Their Own Words

I wanted to make a spiritual thriller, an existential thriller, and I thought the elements that Bresson and Bergman and Dreyer and Ozu brought to the spiritual film could be transmuted into a thriller that would keep the audience on the edge of their seat.

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Filmography (55)