Ingmar Bergman

55 films · 1944 to 2008 · 13 on TSPDT
Born 14 July 1918, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden · Died 30 July 2007

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.

Ingmar Bergman

Defining films

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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