Ingmar Bergman
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| Ingmar Bergman | |
 Ingmar Bergman during production of Wild Strawberries (1957) |
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| Birth name | Ernst Ingmar Bergman |
| Born | July 14 1918 Uppsala, Sweden |
| Died | July 30 2007 (aged 89) Fårö, Sweden |
| Years active | 1944 – 2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Else Fischer (1943–1945) Ellen Lundström (1945-1950) Gun Grut (1951–1959) Käbi Laretei (1959–1969) Ingrid von Rosen (1971–1995) |
| Academy Awards | |
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| Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1971 Lifetime Achievement |
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| César Awards | |
| Best Foreign Film 1984 Fanny och Alexander |
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Ingmar Bergman (info • help) (IPA: ['ɪŋmar 'bærjman] in Swedish, but usually IPA: [ˈbɝgmən] in English) (July 14 1918 – July 30 2007) was a Swedish stage and film director. Ingmar Bergman found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his indelible explorations of the human condition. He is regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema.[1]
Many filmmakers worldwide, including Americans Woody Allen and Robert Altman, the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, have cited the work of Bergman as a major influence on their work.[needs proving]
[change] Biography
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden to a Lutheran minister of Danish descent, Erik Bergman (later chaplain to the King of Sweden), and his wife, Karin (née Åkerblom). He grew up surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. His father was a rather conservative parish minister and strict family father: Ingmar was locked up in dark closets for infractions such as wetting the bed. "While father preached away in the pulpit and the congregation prayed, sang or listened," Ingmar writes in his biography Laterna Magica,
- "I devoted my interest to the church’s mysterious world of low arches, thick walls, the smell of eternity, the colored sunlight quivering above the strangest vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls. There was everything that one’s imagination could desire — angels, saints, dragons, prophets, devils, humans."
He performed two five-month stretches of mandatory military service and studied Art and Literature at Stockholm University College (the later Stockholm University), but without graduating. Instead, he developed an interest in theatre and later in cinema (though he had become a "genuine movie addict"[2] by the early 1930s).
Although he grew up in a devout Lutheran household, Bergman stated that he lost his faith at age eight but came to terms with this fact only when making Winter Light.[3]
Since the early sixties Bergman lived much of his life on the island of Fårö, Gotland, Sweden, where he made a number of his films. Bergman moved to Munich for a while following a protracted battle with the Swedish government over alleged tax evasion, and did not return to make another film in Sweden until 1982, when he directed Fanny and Alexander. Bergman said this would be his last film, and that he would go on to direct theater. Since that time he did make a number of films for television, but later retired to Fårö, stating in 2004 that he would never again leave the island.
Ingmar Bergman died peacefully at his home on Fårö, in the early morning of July 30 2007, age 89,[4][5] the same day that another great film director, Michelangelo Antonioni, passed away.
[change] References
- ↑ "Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89", New York Times, July 30, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-21. “Ingmar Bergman, the “poet with the camera” who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died today on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. Bergman was 89.”
- ↑ Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films, by Jerry Vermilye, 2001, p. 6
- ↑ The Films of Ingmar Bergman, by Jesse Kalin, 2003, p. 193
- ↑ http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=675505
- ↑ http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=1204057
