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Ingmar Bergman
Director 1918 - 2007

Ingmar Bergman

Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

44 titles
Saraband

Saraband

Ingmar Bergman 2003 2h 7.0

A follow-up to Scenes from a Marriage (1973); some thirty years after divorcing Johan, Marianne decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.

Efter repetitionen

Efter repetitionen

Ingmar Bergman 1984 1h 14m 5.0

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 Strindberg's A Dream Play.

Dokument Fanny och Alexander

Dokument Fanny och Alexander

Ingmar Bergman 1984 1h 50m

Shot during the making of Fanny and Alexander, this feature-length documentary presents extended behind-the-scenes material from rehearsals and filming sessions, with Bergman at work staging scenes and directing performances.

Fanny och Alexander

Fanny och Alexander

Ingmar Bergman 1982 3h 8m 8.4

A widowed actress and her children suffer hardships when she marries a conservative church leader.

Aus dem Leben der Marionetten

Aus dem Leben der Marionetten

Ingmar Bergman 1980 1h 44m 6.0

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.

Höstsonaten

Höstsonaten

Ingmar Bergman 1978 1h 33m 8.4

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past.

The Serpent's Egg

The Serpent's Egg

Ingmar Bergman 1977 2h 6.0

The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I.

Ansikte mot ansikte

Ansikte mot ansikte

Ingmar Bergman 1976 1h 54m 7.5

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears.

Trollflöjten

Trollflöjten

Ingmar Bergman 1975 2h 14m 6.7

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera.

Scener ur ett äktenskap

Scener ur ett äktenskap

Ingmar Bergman 1974 2h 49m 6.0

Chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne and Johan through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.

Viskningar och rop

Viskningar och rop

Ingmar Bergman 1972 1h 35m 8.7

When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.

Beröringen

Beröringen

Ingmar Bergman 1971 1h 55m 5.0

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

Riten

Riten

Ingmar Bergman 1969 1h 12m 6.0

Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.

En passion

En passion

Ingmar Bergman 1969 1h 41m 6.5

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

Vargtimmen

Vargtimmen

Ingmar Bergman 1968 1h 28m 8.2

An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

Skammen

Skammen

Ingmar Bergman 1968 1h 44m 7.9

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Stimulantia

Stimulantia

Hans Abramson, Hans Alfredson 1967 1h 45m 5.0

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm.

Persona

Persona

Ingmar Bergman 1966 1h 25m 8.9

Persona is a psychoanalytical film from Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and reputed as his greatest masterpiece. The film deals with a silent actress and her relationship with her nurse who narrates her story.

För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor

För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor

Ingmar Bergman 1964 1h 17m 6.0

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less.

Tystnaden

Tystnaden

Ingmar Bergman 1963 1h 35m 7.8

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay.

Nattvardsgästerna

Nattvardsgästerna

Ingmar Bergman 1963 1h 20m 7.8

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

Såsom i en spegel

Såsom i en spegel

Ingmar Bergman 1961 1h 31m 8.1

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality.

Jungfrukällan

Jungfrukällan

Ingmar Bergman 1960 1h 30m 8.3

Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the somber, powerful fable of peasant parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.

Djävulens öga

Djävulens öga

Ingmar Bergman 1960 1h 28m 7.5

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.

Nära livet

Nära livet

Ingmar Bergman 1958 1h 25m 6.7

Set in a hospital where three women meet either because they have been through an abortion or are due to give birth.

Ansiktet

Ansiktet

Ingmar Bergman 1958 1h 42m 7.8

A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.

Smultronstället

Smultronstället

Ingmar Bergman 1957 1h 31m 8.2

Wild Strawberries is a drama from Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. He tells the story of one day in the life of medicine professor, Borg, who while on a trip to another university reviews over his life in a dream.

Herr Sleeman kommer

Herr Sleeman kommer

Ingmar Bergman 1957 43m 6.0

Herr Sleeman kommer (Mr. Sleeman Is Coming) is a 1917 one-act play by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman. The main character is an orphaned young woman who is about to be married off to an unappealing but rich old man, Mr. Sleeman, at the instigation of her aunts who have taken charge of her.

Det sjunde inseglet

Det sjunde inseglet

Ingmar Bergman 1957 1h 36m 8.5

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life.

Sommarnattens leende

Sommarnattens leende

Ingmar Bergman 1955 1h 49m 7.9

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.

Kvinnodröm

Kvinnodröm

Ingmar Bergman 1955 1h 28m 7.0

The film consists of several dreams based on Kurosawa's own, throughout his life. The dreams are eight separate segments in the following order: Sunshine Through The Rain The Peach Orchard The Blizzard The Tunnel Crows Mount Fuji in Red The Weeping Demon Village of the Watermills

En lektion i kärlek

En lektion i kärlek

Ingmar Bergman 1954 1h 37m 6.0

After fifteen years of marriage and mutual infidelity, a couple on the brink of divorce unexpectedly confront their unresolved love during a journey to Copenhagen. Blending farce with emotional reflection, the film is Ingmar Bergman’s first sustained venture into marital comedy.

Sommaren med Monika

Sommaren med Monika

Ingmar Bergman 1953 1h 38m 8.1

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Gycklarnas afton

Gycklarnas afton

Ingmar Bergman 1953 1h 33m 8.1

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Kvinnors väntan

Kvinnors väntan

Ingmar Bergman 1952 1h 44m 7.5

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they each wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.

Sommarlek

Sommarlek

Ingmar Bergman 1951 1h 36m 7.6

Ballet dancer Marie reminisce of a summer 13 years ago when she was a teenager and met Henrik on vacation in the archipelago.

Till glädje

Till glädje

Ingmar Bergman 1950 1h 39m 6.0

To Joy (Swedish: Till glädje) is a 1950 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman about a young married couple who play together in a Swedish orchestra.

Törst

Törst

Ingmar Bergman 1949 1h 25m 7.3

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.

Fängelse

Fängelse

Ingmar Bergman 1949 1h 15m 8.3

A film director tries to create the best film in history, but finds out that human abilities have their limits.

Musik i mörker

Musik i mörker

Ingmar Bergman 1948 1h 27m 7.0

Because of an accident at a military drill the recruit Bengt loses his eyesight and becomes blind. He gets to live with relatives in the countryside and meets the young Ingrid. She falls in love with him but Bengt's bitterness also makes him blind to her attentions.

Hamnstad

Hamnstad

Ingmar Bergman 1948 1h 33m 6.3

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

Skepp till India land

Skepp till India land

Ingmar Bergman 1947 1h 36m 6.0

Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal, and the desire to escape. Told in flashback, the film explores family conflict, longing, and moral reckoning in an early milestone of Ingmar Bergman’s career.

Kris

Kris

Ingmar Bergman 1946 1h 33m 6.3

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Det regnar på vår kärlek

Det regnar på vår kärlek

Ingmar Bergman 1946 1h 35m 6.0

David, a unemployed man and Maggi, a country lady meet in a train station in a rainy afternoon and get in love. But they will have to face the society's injustice, arrogance and envy to stay together. In thi fascinating drama Bergman shows the stupidness of Swedish society on 40's.

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