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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Director Ingmar Bergman's allegory of suffering and kindness tells the tale of a knight and his squire on their way home from the Crusades. They meet Death who says it's the knight's time so he ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Bergman's award-winning film is a classic. An elderly academic, who's introverted and emotionally arid, makes a journey to collect a university award. En route he relives his past through nightmares, ... Read more
Bergman's Oscar-winning film is the first of his trilogy of faith. Karen has returned to the family island to recuperate after being in a psychiatric hospital. But her husband, father and brother can'... Read more
On her way to church, Karin is brutally raped and murdered by two men who seek shelter with her father. When he discovers who they are, he murders them in revenge. Then a fresh spring bubbles up ... Read more