FILM DIRECTOR

Ingmar Bergman

1918 - 2007

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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul". Some of his most acclaimed works include The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which were included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ingmar Bergman has received more than 6,500,795 page views. His biography is available in 130 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Ingmar Bergman is the 3rd most popular film director (up from 7th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Film Director.

Ingmar Bergman is most famous for his film work, which includes Persona, The Seventh Seal, and Wild Strawberries.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ingmar Bergman ranks 3 out of 2,041. Before him are Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese. After him are Hayao Miyazaki, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ingmar Bergman ranks 2. Before him is Nelson Mandela. After him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Richard Feynman, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Robert Wadlow, and Rita Hayworth. Among people deceased in 2007, Ingmar Bergman ranks 1. After him are Boris Yeltsin, Luciano Pavarotti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean Baudrillard, Ève Curie, Marcel Marceau, Anna Nicole Smith, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Paul Tibbets.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ingmar Bergman ranks 3 out of 1,879. Before him are Carl Linnaeus (1707), and Alfred Nobel (1833). After him are Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Astrid Lindgren (1907), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Anders Celsius (1701), Tycho Brahe (1546), Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (1946), August Strindberg (1849), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), and Charles XII of Sweden (1682).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Sweden

Among film directors born in Sweden, Ingmar Bergman ranks 1. After him are Lasse Hallström (1946), Victor Sjöström (1879), Roy Andersson (1943), Sven Nykvist (1922), Bo Widerberg (1930), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Jan Troell (1931), Vilgot Sjöman (1924), Ruben Östlund (1974), Olle Hellbom (1925), and Hasse Ekman (1915).

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Filmography

The Seventh Seal
Director
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. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
Feb 16o 19578.2 / 10
Persona
Director
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
Oct 18o 19668.2 / 10
Wild Strawberries
Director
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.
Aug 28o 19578.136 / 10