INGMAR BERGMAN
Name: Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Born: 14 July 1918 Uppsala, Sweden
Died: 30 July 2007 Fårö, Sweden
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)
was an Academy Award-winning Swedish film, stage, and opera
director. He found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his
explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and
most influential filmmakers of modern cinema.
He directed 62 films, most of which he wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some
of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow.
Most of his films were set in the landscape of his native Sweden. The themes
were often bleak, dealing with illness, betrayal, and insanity.
Bergman was active for more than 60 years, but his career was seriously
threatened in 1976 when he suspended a number of pending productions, closed his
studios, and went into self-imposed exile in Germany for eight years following a
botched criminal investigation for alleged income tax evasion.
Name: Ernst Ingmar Bergman
Born: 14 July 1918 Uppsala, Sweden
Died: 30 July 2007 Fårö, Sweden
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007)
was an Academy Award-winning Swedish film, stage, and opera
director. He found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his
explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and
most influential filmmakers of modern cinema.
He directed 62 films, most of which he wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some
of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow.
Most of his films were set in the landscape of his native Sweden. The themes
were often bleak, dealing with illness, betrayal, and insanity.
Bergman was active for more than 60 years, but his career was seriously
threatened in 1976 when he suspended a number of pending productions, closed his
studios, and went into self-imposed exile in Germany for eight years following a
botched criminal investigation for alleged income tax evasion.