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Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007
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31 July 2007
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-No filmmaker wrestled longer and more painfully with the knowledge of his own mortality. His fat
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Saraband
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Reuniting the cast of "Scenes from a Marriage" (1973), the film details the relationship between Marianne and her ex-husband JOhan, whom she visits after 30 years. Before long she finds herself embroiled in a family feud stemmed by the hatred a son has for his father...
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After The Rehearsal
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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A moving tale of love, obsession and rejection. The fil tells the tale of a rational, exacting and self-controlled theatre director, who awakes from reminiscing about a former lover to find that her daughter is in his theatre. Jolted into a rare emotional response, the feelings of the director are ..read more »
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Fanny And Alexander
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Director Ingmar Bergman had intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER to be his final theatrical film and a summing-up of sorts of his entire cinematic career. (It was followed by 1984's AFTER THE REHEARSAL, which was also made for Swedish television and subsequently released theatrically abroad.) FANNY AND ..read more »
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Autumn Sonata
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Halvar Bjork
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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In this drama written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Eva, the meek, seemingly complacent wife of a parson, invites her mother, Charlotte, a world famous pianist, to come for a visit, hoping for a reconciliation after a long period of estrangement and virtually no interaction. ..read more »
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The Serpent's Egg
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Frobe
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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This unusual political drama by Ingmar Bergman was filmed at Bavaria Film Studios in Munich during the director's exile from Sweden after encountering problems with tax officials back home. THE SERPENT'S EGG, a big-budget German-American coproduction, was Bergman's second work in English after THE ..read more »
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Scenes From A Marriage
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE was originally conceived as a six-part TV mini-series. Since the film features only two principal actors, a limited number of indoor locales, and no musical score (nor any other atmosphere-enhancing devices), the success of this intense drama stems largely from the ..read more »
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Cries And Whispers
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Ingmar Bergman's acclaimed drama, which deals with the fractured relationships between three sisters, is set in a vast turn-of-the-century manor house where unidentified voices are continually whispering and mingle with a dying woman's cries of pain. Karin and Maria (played by Ingrid Thulin and Liv ..read more »
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Passion Of Anna
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Shot in striking, diffused colour by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist, THE PASSION OF ANNA is one of several Ingmar Bergman films of the 1960s dealing with a limited number of characters in an isolated setting--filming took place on the remote island of Faro, where Bergman was living at the time-..read more »
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The Rite
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Gunnar Bjornstrand, Anders Ek, Erik Hell
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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A theatre company find that their play has come to the attention of the authorities for being obscene and they are questioned by the local magistrate. Soon everyone is revealing secrets...
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Shame
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjrnstrand
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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In this powerful but excruciating drama, Liv Ullmann and Max Von Sydow play Eva and Jan Rosenberg, a married couple who have withdrawn to a farm on a remote island while their country is ravaged by a violent civil war. After the island is overrun by rebel troops, all hell breaks loose, and an ..read more »
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Hour Of The Wolf
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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This surreal Gothic drama by Swedish master Ingmar Bergman stars Max von Sydow as Johan, a troubled artist who is literally haunted by demons from his past, and Liv Ullmann as his loving wife Alma, who eventually experiences the same nightmarish delusions. A local aristocrat (Erland Josephson) and ..read more »
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Persona
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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PERSONA is an intense and unsettling study of the symbiotic relationship between Alma, a nurse (Bibi Andersson), and Elisabeth (Liv Ullmann), an actress who has mysteriously lost the power of speech. To bring about her patient's recovery, Elisabeth's doctor asks Alma to accompany her to a private ..read more »
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All These Women
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Jarl Kulle
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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An amusing, satirical Bergman farce from 1964, ALL THESE WOMEN is set in the house of womanising cellist, Felix. When a respected critic called Cornelius arrives to begin writing Felix' biography, he finds the house occupied by many women and must endure a series of humiliating situations. His ..read more »
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The Silence
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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In THE SILENCE, sisters Anna and Ester (Gunnel Lindblom and Ingrid Thulin, respectively) are passing through an unspecified European country on their way home from a trip, accompanied by Anna's young son, Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom). They check into a hotel, where the kindly old maitre d' (Hakan ..read more »
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Winter Light
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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The second film of Ingmar Bergman's trilogy on religion and the loss of faith--the other two being THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY and THE SILENCE)--is an unrelentingly austere minimalist drama that takes place in a small village surrounded by a bleak, wintry landscape. Local pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar ..read more »
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Through A Glass Darkly
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjrnstrand
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY won Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film for the second year in a row. (It was preceded by THE VIRGIN SPRING, which won in 1960.) The picture represents Bergman's first experiment with what he referred to as the chamber play, featuring only ..read more »
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The Virgin Spring
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Derived from a medieval ballad, THE VIRGIN SPRING was director Ingmar Bergman's first film to win an Academy Award. The movie represents a return to simpler themes for Bergman after the philosophical complexity of THE SEVENTH SEAL and WILD STRAWBERRIES. On its most basic level, it's the story of ..read more »
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The Magician
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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An elegant follow-up to Bergman's acclaimed WILD STRAWBERRIES, THE MAGICIAN is set in Sweden in the mid-1800s and stars Max von Sydow as the mysterious Albert Vogler, of Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater, a magician and spiritualist who is en route with his troupe--including Vogler's wife, disguised ..read more »
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Wild Strawberries
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Victor Sjostrom
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Winner of the Grand Prix Award for Best Film at the 1958 Berlin Film Festival, Ingmar Bergman's classic Wild Strawberries concerns an elderly academic, introverted and emotionally arid, who makes a journey to collect a university award and en route relives his past through nightmares, dreams and ..read more »
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The Seventh Seal
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow), a knight, returns from a 10-year crusade with his squire, Jons (Gunnar Bjornstrand), to find his homeland ravaged by the plague. When the black-cloaked figure of Death (Bengt Ekerot) appears to claim them, Block, whose war experiences have left him cynical about the ..read more »
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Sawdust And Tinsel
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Ake Gronberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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On a gray morning, a circus caravan arrives in the town where Albert the ringmaster's family lives. He hasn't seen them for three years and has taken a mistress, the young and buxom Anne. Albert calls on his wife; Anne, jealous and wanting out, visits a theatrical troupe and lets an actor, Frans, ..read more »
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Summer With Monika
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Harry Anderson, Lars Ekborg, John Harryson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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SUMMER WITH MONIKA is an intense, sensual drama, adapted by Ingmar Bergman from a novel by Per Anders Fogelstrom. In an acclaimed, stellar performance, Harriet Andersson, on her way to becoming a Bergman regular, plays the fiery teenager Monika, and Lars Ekborg is Harry, a sensitive youth who ..read more »
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Summer Interlude
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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A sensitive, lyrical offering from Ingmar Bergman, SUMMER INTERLUDE deals with the innocence of first love and the transition from youth to adulthood, two of the director-screenwriter's favorite themes, and ones that he would revisit in later works. When Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), a prima ballerina,..read more »
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Prison
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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A movie director is approached by his old math teacher with a great movie idea: the Devil declares that the Earth is hell. The director rejects the idea, but subsequent events in the life of a writer, a friend of the director's, and a young prostitute he loves seem to prove the math teacher's idea.
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To Joy
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Maud Hyttenberg
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Directed by Ingmar Bergman at the age of 30, TO JOY is a classic early work of his--exploring the themes of relationships and the role of the artist. It tells the story of Marta and Stig (Maj-Britt Nilsson and Stig Olin) who perform in the same orchestra. Their conductor is played by Victor ..read more »
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Three Strange Loves
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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A psychological drama of the type director Ingmar Bergman would become famous for later in his career, THREE STRANGE LOVES was adapted for the screen by Herbert Grevenius from four short stories by source writer Birgit Tengroth. In this film, Bergman depicts the three heroines' emotional struggles ..read more »
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Music In Darkness
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Made in 1948, Ingmar Bergman's fourth feature proved highly popular in his native Sweden and helped cement his position as one of the world's most promising directors. The film tells the heartwrenching story of a blind piano teacher who falls in love with one of his students, a tale laden with ..read more »
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Crisis
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Inga Landgre, Marianne Lofgren, Allan Bohlin
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Nelly lives with her poor foster mother in a small town. When Nelly wants to go to a charity ball, her stepmother manages to save enough money to buy her a new dress. However Nelly's glamorous real mother appears with a more expensive dress and Nelly wears this instead and also accepts her mothers ..read more »
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The Phantom Carriage / The Image Makers
(2 discs)
(1922)
Starring: Victor Sjostrom
Director: Victor Sjostrom, Ingmar Bergman
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Classic silent horror THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE takes as its premise the legend that anyone who dies on New Years Eve is condemned to drive the coach of death for all of the following year.THE IMAGE MAKERS is Ingmar Bergman's retelling of the events that took place during the making of THE PHANTOM ..read more »
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...One of Ingmar Bergman’s rare favourites among his films, this stunningly beautiful “medieval road movie” of a medieval knight returning to a country suffering from the plague...
