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Ingmar Bergman

イングマール・ベルイマン

Ingumāru Beriman

Aliases: Ernst Ingmar Bergman / Buntel Eriksson

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1918-07-14 (Uppsala, Sweden)
Died
2007-07-30 (Fårö, Sweden) age 89
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Religion
Lutheran
Residence History
Uppsala, Sweden → Stockholm, Sweden → Fårö, Sweden → Munich, West Germany

Career

Occupations
Film director, Screenwriter, Theatre director
Active Years
1944-2005
Affiliations
Royal Dramatic Theatre, Residenztheater, Helsingborg City Theatre
Influenced By
August Strindberg
Influenced
Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick
Nominations
Academy Award Best Director (Cries and Whispers), Academy Award Best Picture (Cries and Whispers)

Education

Palmgren School
Period: 思春期
Country: Sweden
Unhappy school years
Stockholm University College
Art and literature
Period: 1937年頃
Country: Sweden
Did not graduate, focused on student theatre

Awards

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1961
Work: The Virgin Spring
Organization: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Result: 受賞
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1962
Work: Through a Glass Darkly
Organization: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Result: 受賞
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1983
Work: Fanny and Alexander
Organization: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Result: 受賞
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
1971
Organization: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Result: 受賞
Cannes Film Festival Best Director
1958
Work: Brink of Life
Organization: Cannes Film Festival
Result: 受賞
Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear
1958
Work: Wild Strawberries
Organization: Berlin International Film Festival
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Seventh Seal

1957 Drama

A knight plays chess with Death amid plague. Explores faith and mortality.

deathfaithexistence

Wild Strawberries

1957 Drama

An aging professor reflects on life through dreams and memories.

agingregretredemption

Persona

1966 Psychological drama

Identity fusion between nurse and actress.

identitysilenceart

Fanny and Alexander

1982 Family drama

A family's story in early 20th-century Sweden.

familyfantasyreality

Bibliography

  • The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
  • Images: My Life in Film
  • The Best Intentions
  • Sunday's Children
  • Private Confessions

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Profoundly personal meditationsExperimental techniquesImprovised dialogue
Recurring Motifs
mortalitylonelinesssilence of Godsexual desire

Health

  • Insomnia
    生涯
    Affected his creative work
  • Stomach ailments
    幼少期から生涯
    A calamitous and humiliating affliction

Legacy

Regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers in history, known for existential themes influencing many directors.

Museums

  • Ingmar Bergman Center Fårö, Sweden Opened in 2013

Archives

  • Swedish Film Institute

In Popular Culture

  • Mentioned in Woody Allen films

Quotes

  • No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions.
    Source: Interview (1964)

Trivia

  • Father of 9 children
  • Married 5 times
  • Lost faith at age 8
  • Attended Nazi rally as a teen but later horrified