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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema, most notably as a prominent figure of both European film industry and Swedish cinema. His films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul."
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Born 14 July 1918 · Died 30 July 2007 · Q7546
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screenplays, thinking about them for months or years before starting the actual process of writing, which he viewed as somewhat tedious. His earlier films are carefully constructed and are either based on his plays or written in collaboration with other authors. Bergman stated that in his later works, when on occasion his actors would want to do things differently from his own intention, he would let them, noting that the results were often
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“jittery and ready to cry... and miserable.”
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“screenplays, thinking about them for months or years before starting the actual process of writing, which he viewed as somewhat tedious. His earlier films are carefully constructed and are either based on his plays or written in collaboration with other authors. Bergman stated that in his later works, when on occasion his actors would want to do things differently from his own intention, he would let them, noting that the results were often”
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“hated school as a principle, as a system and as an institution. And as such I have definitely not wanted to criticize my own school, but all schools.”
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“I devoted my interest to the church”
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Daytime Confidential: The Young and The Restless Vet Tracey Bergman Debuts Talk Show
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West End Theatre: Sophocles meets Ingrid Bergman: Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss in rehearsals for Electra/Persona at the National Theatre
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Mshale: Peter Bergman & Daphnée Duplaix Interview | Beyond The Gates & The Young And The Restless Crossover Daniel Negreanu (O9Rn8xxET0)
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Alternate Ending - Movie Reviews: The Podcast: Ingmar Bergman’s Trilogy - Alternate Ending
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In honor of Bergman's 100th birthday, The Criterion Collection compiled and released a Blu-ray disc box set comprising 39 of Bergman's features
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The British Film Institute (BFI) hosted an Ingmar Bergman season and Ayoade said in a Guardian interview that he saw everything in it, "which was one of the best two months ever
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New York magazine ranked Bergman at number 55 on their list of The 100 Best Screenwriters of All Time
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Max von Sydow stated to Charlie Rose that he had had many discussions with Bergman about religion which seemed to indicate that Bergman believed in an afterlife and von Sydow said that Bergman contacted him after his dea
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Died 2007-07-30.
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“Variant translation: Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
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“The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes.”
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“When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying, but now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It’s like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.”
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“I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.”
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“I was very cruel to actors and to other people. I think I was a very, very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today, I think I would say, "You are very talented and I will see if I can help you, but I don't think I want anything else to do with you." I don't say I'm pleasant now, but I think I changed slowly in my 50's. At least I hope I've changed.”
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“I am very much aware of my own double self... The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work — he is in touch with the child. He is not rational, he is impulsive and extremely emotional. Perhaps it is not even a "he," but a "she.”
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Total Film magazine ranked Bergman at No
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“I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.”
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“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”
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“I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup — nothing and nothing and then all at once — splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish — I don't dislike to be alone”
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“I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.”
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On the island of Fårö, Bergman said that despite being active during the exile, he had effectively lost eight years of his professional life
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Bergman said that of his works, he held Winter Light, Persona, and Cries and Whispers in the highest regard
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Bergman was listed at number nine on the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound list of the top ten film directors of modern times
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Stated that a conversation he had with Erland Josephson helped him to believe that he would see Ingrid again
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Was awarded the Palme des Palmes (Palm of the Palms) at the 50th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival
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Entertainment Weekly ranked Bergman at No
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University Lille-III (1995).
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Awarded Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay for The Best Intentions (1992).
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1991).
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Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (1988).
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Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (1988).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1986).
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Awarded César Award for Fanny and Alexander (1984).
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Awarded Guldbagge Award for Best Director for Fanny and Alexander (1983).
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Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1976).
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On 30 January 1976, while rehearsing August Strindberg's The Dance of Death at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, he was arrested by two plainclothes police officers and charged with income tax evasion
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After having been notified by the Swedish Central Bank and subsequently reported the income
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Bergman received the Irving G
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Awarded Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1970).
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“a very, very wise arrangement”
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Awarded Erasmus Prize (1965).
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Awarded Guldbagge Award for Best Director for The Silence (1964).
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Said: "The manifestation of sex is very important, and particularly to me, for above all, I don't want to make merely intellectual films
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Bergman was featured in the cover of Time, the first foreign-language filmmaker to do so since Leni Riefenstahl in 1936
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Won Golden Bear (1958).
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Awarded Cannes Best Director Award for Brink of Life (1958).
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Won the Best Director award for Brink of Life at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Golden Bear for Wild Strawberries at the Berlin International Film Festival
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As well as Sawdust and Tinsel (Gycklarnas afton) and Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika), both released in 1953
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Was given the opportunity to direct one of his own scripts, Caspar's Death
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With his work rewriting scripts, but his first major accomplishment was in 1944 when he wrote the screenplay for Torment (a
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Studied at Stockholm University (1937).
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Aged 16, he was sent to Germany to spend the summer holidays with family friends
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Born 1918-07-14.
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Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Awarded International Federation of Film Critics.
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Awarded David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director.
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Awarded Sonning Prize.
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Awarded David di Donatello for best foreign screenplay.
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Studied at Palmgrenska samskolan.
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