Was born 100 years ago, is not Ingmar Bergman, from the history of cinema here to stay. We present the most important works of the master Director – and look to a new, surprising documentation.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Desire of women (1952)
Bergman had already directed ten films, as a “desire of women” in the cinema came: Four women talk about while they wait on their men, of their relationships. In flashbacks and with different aesthetic concepts of the Swede insights into his world, allowed image. Morale and Loyalty, grief, and lust for Life – these are the themes of the Director to handle.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Night of the juggler (1953)
Also in “night of the juggler,” said Bergman, of soul-anguish, love, turmoil, and erotic escapades – here, however, is in the rather gloomy tone and in the circus milieu. The emotions of the people – mirrored in the arena of life: “night of the juggler” was once more a mirror of the mountain Mans Chen soul. At the box office of the more pessimistic Film was not received and was a financial Flop.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Smiles of a summer night (1955)
After the failure of “night of the juggler” turned Bergman, some of the lighter films that came on the classic themes of the Director’s comedic. Especially the “Smiles of a summer night”, a social Comedy that plays to the penultimate turn of the century, was a great success – at the box office, but also in Cannes. The Film received a special prize for “poetic Humor”.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
The seventh seal (1957)
The Film brought the final breakthrough: With “The seventh seal” rose Bergman to a around the world respected Director. “‘The seventh seal is an allegory with a memorable theme: The individual man, his eternal search for God, and death as the only security,” says Bergman about his in the late medieval based movie, in which the “death” occurred in the flesh.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The year 1957 was for all the work on the Theater employees the Director of a Triumph. According to “The seventh seal” gave Bergman a second masterpiece. In “Wild strawberries” reflected the Swede, in turn, his life on the canvas, looked into the future: Victor Sjöström as Professor Isak Borg (Ingrid Thulin) was a Vision of the Ego as an old man.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
The Spring Of The Virgin (1960)
A medieval drama, a Film about guilt, Religion, revenge, and atonement. For “The maiden source” got Bergman an Oscar in the category “Best foreign language Film” – two more Oscars were to follow for the Director in later years. Because of a relatively dramatically staged rape scene, the Film was seized in Bavaria in the meantime.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
The Silence (1963)
Finally the “scandal Director” was Ingmar Bergman Film “The Silence”. Two sisters, as well as the ten-year-old son of a woman stranded in a Hotel in a city whose language they did not understand. Explicit sex scenes, and the linking of sexuality and Religion shook the beginning of the 1960s, a lot of cinema viewers. “The Silence” was often censored and banned.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Persona (1966)
Through the Medium of cinema, Bergman made his Film “Persona” thoughts. Again, everything revolves around two women, whose relationship to each other, their relations with the outside world. Sexuality and Faith, in turn, are reflected points of the story – this time, however, in a Film that rode in formally experimental ways and through art and cinema fundamentally.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Also with this Film, Bergman has remained true to itself: a deeper look into the female Psyche, emotions, shiny cast – here in the Form of a Chamber play. The Director’s colleague, François Truffaut commented at the time: The Film start as the “Three sisters” by Chekhov, and “The cherry orchard”, in between was a lot of Strindberg. “Cries and Whispers” was at the box office a success.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Scenes from a marriage (1973)
For Bergman-connoisseur something like the conclusion of his career: a look behind the facade of a marriage, the reality behind the appearances. A married couple with two children, has just been featured in a magazine story as a seemingly happy Couple, alienated. With little effort, turned Film first appeared as a six-part television series, was then cut for the cinema.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Also, “Fanny and Alexander” was born in a cinema, and a longer TV version. Bergman looked here, once again, back to Childhood and parents ‘ house. A family film, poetic and entertaining, even humorous, but in each of the scenes also serious and full of bitterness. Once again, a great cinematic masterpiece of the mid-sixty-year-old Swedish Director.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Desire of women (1952)
Bergman had already directed ten films, as a “desire of women” in the cinema came: Four women talk about while they wait on their men, of their relationships. In flashbacks and with different aesthetic concepts of the Swede insights into his world, allowed image. Morale and Loyalty, grief, and lust for Life – these are the themes of the Director to handle.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Night of the juggler (1953)
Also in “night of the juggler,” said Bergman, of soul-anguish, love, turmoil, and erotic escapades – here, however, is in the rather gloomy tone and in the circus milieu. The emotions of the people – mirrored in the arena of life: “night of the juggler” was once more a mirror of the mountain Mans Chen soul. At the box office of the more pessimistic Film was not received and was a financial Flop.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Smiles of a summer night (1955)
After the failure of “night of the juggler” turned Bergman, some of the lighter films that came on the classic themes of the Director’s comedic. Especially the “Smiles of a summer night”, a social Comedy that plays to the penultimate turn of the century, was a great success – at the box office, but also in Cannes. The Film received a special prize for “poetic Humor”.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
The seventh seal (1957)
The Film brought the final breakthrough: With “The seventh seal” rose Bergman to a around the world respected Director. “‘The seventh seal is an allegory with a memorable theme: The individual man, his eternal search for God, and death as the only security,” says Bergman about his in the late medieval based movie, in which the “death” occurred in the flesh.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The year 1957 was for all the work on the Theater employees the Director of a Triumph. According to “The seventh seal” gave Bergman a second masterpiece. In “Wild strawberries” reflected the Swede, in turn, his life on the canvas, looked into the future: Victor Sjöström as Professor Isak Borg (Ingrid Thulin) was a Vision of the Ego as an old man.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
The Spring Of The Virgin (1960)
A medieval drama, a Film about guilt, Religion, revenge, and atonement. For “The maiden source” got Bergman an Oscar in the category “Best foreign language Film” – two more Oscars were to follow for the Director in later years. Because of a relatively dramatically staged rape scene, the Film was seized in Bavaria in the meantime.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
The Silence (1963)
Finally the “scandal Director” was Ingmar Bergman Film “The Silence”. Two sisters, as well as the ten-year-old son of a woman stranded in a Hotel in a city whose language they did not understand. Explicit sex scenes, and the linking of sexuality and Religion shook the beginning of the 1960s, a lot of cinema viewers. “The Silence” was often censored and banned.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Persona (1966)
Through the Medium of cinema, Bergman made his Film “Persona” thoughts. Again, everything revolves around two women, whose relationship to each other, their relations with the outside world. Sexuality and Faith, in turn, are reflected points of the story – this time, however, in a Film that rode in formally experimental ways and through art and cinema fundamentally.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Also with this Film, Bergman has remained true to itself: a deeper look into the female Psyche, emotions, shiny cast – here in the Form of a Chamber play. The Director’s colleague, François Truffaut commented at the time: The Film start as the “Three sisters” by Chekhov, and “The cherry orchard”, in between was a lot of Strindberg. “Cries and Whispers” was at the box office a success.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Scenes from a marriage (1973)
For Bergman-connoisseur something like the conclusion of his career: a look behind the facade of a marriage, the reality behind the appearances. A married couple with two children, has just been featured in a magazine story as a seemingly happy Couple, alienated. With little effort, turned Film first appeared as a six-part television series, was then cut for the cinema.
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Was born 100 years ago: Ingmar Bergman
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Also, “Fanny and Alexander” was born in a cinema, and a longer TV version. Bergman looked here, once again, back to Childhood and parents ‘ house. A family film, poetic and entertaining, even humorous, but in each of the scenes also serious and full of bitterness. Once again, a great cinematic masterpiece of the mid-sixty-year-old Swedish Director.
Many consider him the greatest film Director of the 20th century. Century. The Cannes film festival wanted to hold on to the 1997 officially and gave Sweden a special prize: The “palm of palms”, which should be nothing to Express other than “the Best Director of all time”. Such superlatives are, of course, questionable, they do show, however, that this filmmaker is undoubtedly one of the very important pioneers in the history of the seventh art.
Bergman was a Workaholic behind the camera and on the stage
Born on the 14. July 1918, in Uppsala and in 2007, on the Swedish island of Fårö died, behind Bergman left an enormous Oeuvre. Between 1946 and 2003, directed the Director of numerous films, mainly for the big screen. Bergman experimented but also early on with the smaller format for a TV. In addition, he is one of the most important theatre Directors in Europe. And Bergman wrote: memories and diaries, and screenplays, of course, a huge text collection, which is not developed yet completely.
1957 is considered to be a crucial year: Bergman was at all stages of the tremendously hardworking
His films have been awarded numerous prizes at Festivals and also in the USA, where Bergman received three Oscars. It is no secret that many Regis adored your descendant generations the Swedes, always tried to imitate him. The most well-known Bergman Fan among the Directors Woody Allen is. The Americans, otherwise rather as a melancholic Comedy Director, shot “September” and “another woman”, two serious movies à la Bergman.
The culture of the world is the Swedish film Director at your feet
Fans of the Swede had not only in the cinema scene. Also representatives of other Cultural fields, they paid homage to Ingmar Bergman. The recently published new edition of his memoirs, “Laterna Magica”, is introduced by a Foreword of the French literature Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. The novelist sums up the core of Bergman’s art: “Bergman is a morality-free, or, better, not soziabler man, and only dealing with the women he chooses helps him to a profession, which is a Stop – a way of life.”
What woman and man have to say? Scene from Bergman’s “One summer” (1951)
Bergman and women, that too is a Chapter in itself, about which a lot has been written. The Swede had numerous wives, lovers, life partners, often at the same time. Bergman made this relationship even to his life’s movie theme. Le Clézio: “Probably because the art of this tissue of lies, jealousy, and erotic Games and half-comic, is for him a semi-tragic drama, which brings out the clear-sighted intelligence, which is like a field of battle, to conquer the there is nothing, but to hold everything.”
Ingmar Bergman: masters of the psychological deep holes
Bergman staged in his films, this battleground of feelings, sometimes with unbearable intensity, did not spare the spectators. He was one of the first, the erotic and sexuality in never-before-seen openness showed and spoke. And he linked this human feeling worlds with the questions of the meaning of life. Disease and death, the search for God and the question of whether Religion can be the people with an honest help, all the employees of the Director.
A Chapter for: Ingmar Bergman and the women with Liv Ullmann
That Ingmar Bergman turned his life into a work of art is only late, apparently. The Director of so many unforgettable masterpieces to mind, it is good to stage. What he wrote down was his view of things. Other cast members, and many team members, came to different insights, different perspectives were, is less well known.
A new documentary looks behind the facade
“Bergman – A Year in a Life” by the Swedish filmmaker Jane Magnusson presented in may in Cannes, with some surprising results. The mountain Mans to national socialism, the Swede paid homage to in a long time. Or look back on Childhood and youth, he worked in so many films and so often addressed. This view, Magnusson’s knowledge, was a very subjective and from the point of view of family members Bergmans – a grossly distorting.
Mountain Mans age work of 1978: “autumn Sonata” with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann
What the Director said about his life and his work, you should enjoy with caution. The artistic power of his films does not diminish.
“Laterna Magica Ingmar Bergman: My life” was published by Alexander Verlag Berlin just new, and expanded, ISBN 978-3-89581-471-6. Jane Magnusson’s Film, “Bergman – A Year in a Life” just celebrated at the Munich film festival Premiere in Germany.