|
|
Ingmar Bergman
News |
What members say |
Filmography
Ingmar Bergman - news / articles
-
-
Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007
-
31 July 2007
-
- -See the entire LOVEFiLM Bergman Collection here - -
-Checkmate. Death has finally taken the great Swedish master, Ingmar Bergman, as he always knew it must. -
-No filmmaker wrestled longer and more painfully with the knowledge of his own mortality. His fat
Ingmar Bergman - what members say
review by A customer from Harlow, Nr Madness
Bergman - Dude you totally Melvined Death 17 July 2007
review by A customer from London
A Great Duel Between Science and Magic 5 October 2004
review by SCH from Lincoln
SO Good I watched it twice! 23 October 2007
Ingmar Bergman - filmography
-
-
Saraband
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Borje Ahlstedt
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate: 
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...
 
60%
from 1,250 member
-
-
After The Rehearsal
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Stindberg's "A Dream Play." She talks of her hatred for her mother, now ..read more »
63%
from 260 members
-
-
Fanny and Alexander
(1982)
Starring: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
74%
from 3,446 members
Not currently released
-
-
Autumn Sonata
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Halvar Bjork
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship ..read more »
73%
from 1,442 member
-
-
The Serpent's Egg
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Frobe
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate: 
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 »
51%
from 382 members
-
-
Scenes from a Marriage
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a close-up examination of a relationship as it slowly falls apart, and investigates the toll it takes on both parties. Johan and Marianne (Erland ..read more »
73%
from 2,005 members
-
-
Cries and Whispers
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Kari Sylwan, Harriet Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point ..read more »
69%
from 2,434 members
-
-
Passion Of Anna
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate: 
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 »
66%
from 699 members
-
-
Shame
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjrnstrand
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Shame demonstrates the futility of escaping the consequences of war. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated to an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. Trained and employed as classical violinists, they ..read more »
69%
from 749 members
-
-
Hour Of The Wolf
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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 »
66%
from 951 members
-
-
Persona
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth ..read more »
72%
from 3,749 members
-
-
The Silence
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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 »
69%
from 1,513 member
-
-
Winter Light
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate: 
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 »
73%
from 1,570 member
-
-
Through a Glass Darkly
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjrnstrand
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Ingmar Bergman won his second Best Foreign Film Oscar for the moody family drama Through a Glass Darkly. It is the first of what came to be called his chamber dramas, which positioned four characters in one place where they could interact like a string quartet. It has also been referred to as the ..read more »
70%
from 2,552 members
-
-
The Virgin Spring
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Inspired by a medieval Swedish ballad, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukallan) begins with a scene of unspeakable brutality and ends with an image of uncommon beauty. 15-year-old Birgitta Peterson, on her way to church to light candles for the Virgin Mary, is raped and murdered by two ..read more »
73%
from 1,743 member
-
-
The Magician
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
70%
from 1,507 member
-
-
So Close to Life
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Eva Dahlbeck, Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate: 
Brink of Life (original Swedish title: Nara Livet) can be described as an Ingmar Bergman potboiler-keeping in mind that a potboiler from Bergman is better than a major production from almost anyone else. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin and Bibi Andersson portray three mothers in a maternity ward. In ..read more »
46%
from 3 members
-
-
The Seventh Seal
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Bjornstrand
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
70%
from 10,527 members
-
-
Wild Strawberries
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson, Victor Sjostrom
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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 »
72%
from 6,119 members
-
-
Summer with Monika
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Harry Anderson, Lars Ekborg, John Harryson
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
An innocent youth finds love and, eventually, heartbreak in this film, which ranks among Ingmar Bergman's simplest and most unaffected. Harry (Lars Ekborg), the unworldly, unhappy hero, suffers at his job and in his personal life. Then he falls in love with the superficial Monika (Harriet Andersson)..read more »
71%
from 1,254 member
-
-
Prison
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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.
64%
from 129 members
-
-
To Joy
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Maud Hyttenberg
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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 »
64%
from 411 members
-
-
Music In Darkness
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Mai Zetterling, Birger Malmsten
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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 »
62%
from 130 members
-
-
Crisis
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Inga Landgre, Marianne Lofgren, Allan Bohlin
Director: Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
Certificate:
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 »
59%
from 286 members
|
Ingmar Bergman facts
|
...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...
