"personal feature film, that he had intended to be his last, was the somewhat autobiographical ""Fanny and Alexander"", based on his and Margareta's unhappy childhood. Margareta Bergman was married to English author and broadcaster Paul Britten Austin from 1951 until his death in 2005. She had four children, Veronica Ralston (born 1951, who translated some of her books), Thomas Britten Austin, Rose Britten Austin (a sculptor), and Cecelia Britten Austin. ""Publisher's Weekly"" wrote that in ""Mirror, Mirror"", Bergman draws on a similar set of images as her brother Ingmar Bergman—wild strawberries, an ""actress struck mute by aphasia"" but with a"
"for television was the original. After completing production, Bergman had to edit the complete cut to 188 minutes for screenings in theatres, regretting losing much of the fantasy material. He remarked, ""This was extremely troublesome, as I had to cut into the nerves and lifeblood of the film"". The film premiered in Stockholm on 17 December 1982 in its 188-minute theatrical cut. Distribution rights were sold to 30 other countries in 1982. It subsequently opened in France on 9 March 1983, West Germany on 8 October 1983, and the United States on 17 June 1983. The complete version runs 312"
"1969, resigning after the Yom Kippur War in 1974. (She died in Jerusalem on December 8, 1978, at the age of 80.) The film received seven Emmy nominations and won three awards, including the Outstanding Drama Special and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for Ingrid Bergman, which was awarded posthumously (the award was accepted by Bergman's daughter Pia Lindström). The film was also nominated for two Golden Globes and won the award for Best Performance by an Actress for Bergman, again awarded posthumously. A Woman Called Golda A Woman Called Golda is a 1982 American made-for-television film"
"Fanny and Alexander Fanny and Alexander () is a 1982 historical period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the eponymous children's father (Allan Edwall), their mother (Ewa Fröling) remarries a prominent bishop (Jan Malmsjö) who becomes abusive towards Alexander for his vivid imagination. Bergman intended ""Fanny and Alexander"" to be his final picture before retiring, and his script is semi-autobiographical. The characters Alexander, Fanny and stepfather Edvard are based on himself, his sister"
"scattered notes and conversations with his parents in their later years. At the time, it was one of the most expensive Swedish films ever made. It can be viewed as a continuation of Bergman's 1982 film ""Fanny and Alexander"". After Bergman had ostensibly retired from directing following ""Fanny and Alexander"", he chose August as his director based on his 1988 ""Pelle the Conqueror"", on condition that Pernilla August be cast as Anna. The film is a condensed version of a four-part Swedish television miniseries that aired in December 1991. It won the ""Palme d'Or"" at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival."
"Old Vic in London, directed by Max Webster and starring Penelope Wilton. It was scheduled to debut February 2018. Fanny and Alexander Fanny and Alexander () is a 1982 historical period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. Following the death of the eponymous children's father (Allan Edwall), their mother (Ewa Fröling) remarries a prominent bishop (Jan Malmsjö) who becomes abusive towards Alexander for his vivid imagination. Bergman intended ""Fanny and Alexander"" to be his final picture before"
"Sebastian Bergman Sebastian Bergman (original title ""Den fördömde"", literally ""The cursed one"") is a Swedish police procedural television series, based on two novels by duo Hjorth Rosenfeldt (Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt). It stars Rolf Lassgård as the eponymous hero, a criminal profiler with personal problems. It was originally broadcast on Swedish television in 2010, and a subtitled version was shown on the UK's BBC Four in 2012. Bergman is an experienced psychologist who, at the start of the series, has effectively retired from police work. With a reputation as a womaniser, he has for some years been recovering from"
"(1982), about the late Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. It was to be her final acting role and she was honored posthumously with a second Emmy Award for Best Actress. Her daughter Isabella described Bergman's surprise at being offered the part and the producer trying to explain to her, ""People believe you and trust you, and this is what I want, because Golda Meir had the trust of the people."" Isabella adds, ""Now ""that"" was interesting to Mother."" She was also persuaded that Golda was a ""grand-scale person"", one that people would assume was much taller than she actually was."
"Helena takes to the idea and begins reading it to a sleeping Alexander. The cast consists of: The Ekdahl house The Bishop's house Jacobi's house The Theatre Director Ingmar Bergman conceived of ""Fanny and Alexander"" while working on his 1980 film ""From the Life of the Marionettes"", and wrote the screenplay at Fårö in summer 1979. Bergman intended ""Fanny and Alexander"" to be his last feature film, although he wrote several screenplays afterwards and directed for television. He told the press he decided to retire, because, ""I don't have the strength any more, neither psychologically nor physically"". The screenplay was"
"one of the longest cinematic films in history. The theatrical version was released to positive reviews. It won four Academy Awards, including for Best Foreign Language Film; three Guldbagge Awards, including Best Film; and other honours. ""Fanny and Alexander"" was followed by stage adaptations and further semi-autobiographical screenplays by Bergman, released as films in 1992: ""The Best Intentions"", directed by Bille August, and ""Sunday's Children"", directed by Daniel Bergman. In 1907, the young boy Alexander, his sister Fanny and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls, live in a Swedish town and run a moderately profitable theatre. At Christmastime, the Ekdahls hold"
"a psychiatrist who reads journals concerning this ""case"", is following another marriage. The book's core question is what actually determines if a relationship based on love is healthy or sick. It is a classic case description, created using hospital records, letters, and recollections. ""De två saliga"" was made into a movie by Ingmar Bergman, and released in 1986. ""Kvinnohuset"" is about a shared housing unit for single working women. A chain of human destinies that cross and touch each other, and where the common denominator is that they are all women living in the same house. A special house for"
"a screenplay for Sveriges Television about his father-in-law, movie and theatre director Ingmar Bergman, on a series produced in four one-hour episodes. Mankell pitched the project to Sveriges Television and production was planned for 2011. At the time of his death, Mankell had written over 40 novels that had sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Mankell was married four times and had four sons, Thomas, Marius, Morten and Jon, by different relationships. In 1998 he married Eva Bergman, daughter of film director Ingmar Bergman. In January 2014, Mankell announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and throat"
"The four wins was the most any foreign-language film had received at the Academy Awards to date. ""Fanny and Alexander"" marked the third and final time Bergman won Best Foreign Language Film, after ""The Virgin Spring"" (1960) and ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961). Bergman did not personally attend the ceremony, while working on a stage production in Munich, so his award was accepted by his wife Ingrid von Rosen and Jörn Donner. After ostensibly retiring from directing, Bergman completed ""After the Rehearsal"" in 1984. Bergman also conceived of a biographical project following his parents Erik and Karin Åkerblom, and in"
"part of their release of ""Fanny and Alexander"". The film was awarded as ""Best documentary"" at Chicago International Film Festival 1986 and the Golden Gate Award as ""Best film about film"" at San Francisco International Film Festival 1987. The Making of Fanny and Alexander The Making of Fanny and Alexander () is a 1984 Swedish documentary film directed by Ingmar Bergman which traces the making of his film ""Fanny and Alexander"". Its running length is 110 minutes and it is photographed by Arne Carlsson. It debuted at the Swedish Film Institute on 16 September 1984, with Bergman in attendance to"
"Cries and Whispers Cries and Whispers () is a 1972 Swedish period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film, set in a mansion at the end of the 19th century, is about three sisters and a servant who struggle with the terminal cancer of one of the sisters (Andersson). The servant (Sylwan) is close to her, while the other two sisters (Ullmann and Thulin) confront their emotional distance from each other. Inspired by Bergman's mother, Karin Åkerblom, and his vision of four women in a red"
"Scenes from each episode appear in the film version, which is 168 minutes long. The episode titles appear in the film version as chapter titles. Bergman wrote the teleplay for ""Scenes From a Marriage"" over three months, drawing on his personal experiences, including his relationship with Ullmann, his unhappy, eventually dissolved marriages to Käbi Laretei and Gun Hagberg, and the marriage of his parents, Karin and Erik Bergman. As a boy, he had witnessed his parents violently wrestling, with Karin slapping Erik and Erik pushing her against a wall. Ingmar also found his mother could be manipulative. The budget was"
"a press conference in August 1989, announced he planned a production that could be considered a follow-up to ""Fanny and Alexander"" and his 1987 autobiography ""The Magic Lantern"". The resulting 1991–92 miniseries and film ""The Best Intentions"" was directed by Bille August and won the ""Palme d'Or"" at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Bergman selected Bille August as director on condition that ""Fanny and Alexander"" actress Pernilla Wallgren star as Bergman's mother; she did under the name Pernilla August. Critic Vincent Canby also identified Ingmar's screenplay ""Sunday's Children"", directed by Daniel Bergman and released in 1992, as ""a continuation"" of"
"minutes. It was released in Swedish theatres in 1983, and screened at the 40th Venice International Film Festival in September 1983. It subsequently aired as a miniseries on Sveriges Television in four segments, and five episodes of unequal length at Bergman's demand. They ran 92, 40, 37, 60 and 90 minutes, beginning 25 December 1984. After debuting at the Swedish Film Institute on 16 September 1984, ""The Making of Fanny and Alexander"" aired with a television repeat of ""Fanny and Alexander"" in Sweden on 18 August 1986. In 1991, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the five-hour version as"
"few minutes late for a showing. He instead takes Annie (Diane Keaton) to a screening of ""The Sorrow and the Pity"". Face to Face (1976 film) Face to Face () is a 1976 Swedish psychological drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. It is also the film debut of Lena Olin. The film was conceived and produced as a four-part mini-series on Swedish television with a running time of 177 minutes. The episodes were entitled: It was edited"
"along with other Bergman-related programming between 25 October and 27 December. Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie () is a 1963 Swedish documentary film directed by Vilgot Sjöman which depicts the making of Ingmar Bergman's film ""Winter Light"" from screenwriting to the film's premiere and critical reaction. The film originally aired in five half-hour episodes on Swedish television. It has subsequently been included in a bonus disc of The Criterion Collection's box set of Bergman's ""trilogy,"" ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961), ""Winter Light"", and ""The Silence"" (1963). Sjöman was beginning to write screenplays, and wishing to"
"a joint premiere on television on March 25, 1969. It was reprinted on SVT2 August 1, 1973. The premiere began with a short conversation between Ingmar Bergman and Lars Löfgren. Bergman urged viewers to turn off the TV and go to the movies instead. Both Swedish and Norwegian critics were mostly positive, but somewhat confused. A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and separately, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated. Sebastian, a volatile heavy drinker in debt, is guilty of killing his former partner and"
"Best Foreign Language Film. It was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Ingrid Bergman) and Best Original Screenplay. Autumn Sonata Autumn Sonata (, ) is a 1978 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman, and starring Ingrid Bergman (in her final film role), Liv Ullmann and Lena Nyman. It tells the story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter. All his films from this point, even those eventually shown in theatres, were television productions. It is generally well-regarded by critics. Eva (Liv Ullmann), wife of the village"
"followed from 1979 by films by other directors, Vilgot Sjöman (among them, the film about Alfred Nobel, 1983) and Lasse Hallström. She studied acting at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm 1979–82. Before finishing her studies, she attracted the attention of Ingmar Bergman, who cast her in his film ""Fanny and Alexander"" (1982), playing the nanny in the director's romanticised portrait of his childhood. That marked the beginning of two decades of collaboration, collecting several international awards, including television series ""The Best Intentions"" (1991), where she portrayed Bergman's mother and met her second husband to be, director"
"anguish. Birger Malmsten, who plays the lead character Johannes and who will be seen in several later Bergman films, is immensely likable and compelling as the hunchback son who finally stands up to his despotic father. The film is about the relationships within a family, a subject with which Bergman often dealt in later films, and uses other common devices of Bergman such as the hard father figure. A Ship Bound for India A Ship Bound for India () is a 1947 Swedish film directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally released as A Ship to India in the United"
"life in his marriage and also some of his own childhood memories, (all in a somewhat rewritten form). It was the first of the two works that Liv Ullmann was asked to direct on Ingmar Bergman's manuscript; followed by the film Trolösa (2000). The series is divided into two parts of long film length, a total of 195 minutes, and is produced by Sveriges Television in cooperation with the other Nordic national public service broadcasters. For his role interpretation, the main role holder Pernilla August was awarded a number of international film prizes. For the photo Bergman's long-standing employee Sven"
"itself by failing to keep what is important. He completed the screenplay on 11 August 1961, at which point Vilgot Sjöman began filming the documentary ""Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie"" chronicling the production. With this film, Bergman took the rare step of sharing the screenplay with his father, Church of Sweden minister Erik Bergman, and boasted that his father read it three times. Ingmar may have been trying to communicate to his father that he understood Erik, but the name of the character, Ericsson (son of Erik), may indicate the character represents Ingmar more than Erik. Ingmar Bergman personally cast"
"Margareta and father Erik Bergman, respectively. Many of the scenes were filmed on location in Uppsala. The documentary film ""The Making of Fanny and Alexander"" was made simultaneously with the feature and chronicles its production. The production was originally conceived as a television miniseries and cut in that version, spanning 312 minutes; a 188-minute cut version was created later for cinematic release, although this version was in fact the one to be released first. The television version has since been released as a complete film, and both versions have been shown in theaters throughout the world. The 312-minute cut is"
"Face to Face (1976 film) Face to Face () is a 1976 Swedish psychological drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. It is also the film debut of Lena Olin. The film was conceived and produced as a four-part mini-series on Swedish television with a running time of 177 minutes. The episodes were entitled: It was edited down for theatrical releases for running times from 114 to 135 minutes. However, the theatrical version premiered first. The film was"
"a cycle of seven, called ""The Seven Deadly Sins"". The stories were focused on the same Swedish family, ranging from comedy to drama and a thriller. He wrote, directed and co-produced the project during the nineties. ""Spring of Joy"" was awarded ""The Ingmar Bergman-Prize"", Bergman"" with Bergman's personal motivation: ""A Masterpiece"". ""Spring of Joy"" as well as the other films in the Cycle:""The Hands"", ""Autumn in Paradise"", ""Run for your life"", ""The Eye"", ""Where the Rainbow ends"" and ""The Birthday"" received Scandinavian and international awards. In 2002, ""Everyone loves Alice"" was a major critics' and box office success. The film"
"is often considered to be one of Bergman's greatest and most moving films. Grouchy, stubborn, and egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who specialized in bacteriology. Before specializing he served as general practitioner in rural Sweden. He sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded the degree of Doctor Jubilaris 50 years after he received his doctorate from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband, Evald, Isak's only son, who does not want"
"Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie () is a 1963 Swedish documentary film directed by Vilgot Sjöman which depicts the making of Ingmar Bergman's film ""Winter Light"" from screenwriting to the film's premiere and critical reaction. The film originally aired in five half-hour episodes on Swedish television. It has subsequently been included in a bonus disc of The Criterion Collection's box set of Bergman's ""trilogy,"" ""Through a Glass Darkly"" (1961), ""Winter Light"", and ""The Silence"" (1963). Sjöman was beginning to write screenplays, and wishing to learn about directing, asked Bergman if he could observe him making"
"""Перемена участи"" / ""Peremena uchasti"" / ""A Change of Fate"" (1987). The story was also adapted for six television anthology series: on 30 January 1950 for ""Robert Montgomery Presents"" with Madeleine Carroll; on 3 November 1952 for ""Broadway Television Theatre"" with Sylvia Sidney; on 15 October 1956 for ""Producers' Showcase"" (directed by William Wyler), on 2 December 1956 for ""BBC Sunday-Night Theatre"" with Celia Johnson. in 1960 for ""The Somerset Maugham Hour"" and in 1969 for ""W. Somerset Maugham"" (directed by Christopher Morahan). A made-for-TV movie directed by John Erman and starring Lee Remick was made and released in 1982"
"films ""Smiles of a Summer Night"" (1955) and as the jester's wife in ""The Seventh Seal"" (1957). She would continue to work for him in many more films, most notably in ""Persona"" (1966). Ingrid Thulin plays Marianne, the sad, gentle and warm daughter-in-law of Borg. She appeared in other Bergman films as the mistress in ""Winter Light"" (1963) and as one of three sisters in ""Cries and Whispers"" (1972). Bergman's first wife, Else Fisher, made a brief uncredited appearance as Borg's mother in the final flashback; their daughter, Lena, played one of Isak's twin sisters. ""Wild Strawberries"" received strongly positive"