Sweden

Ingmar Bergman

56 films · 1944 to 2008

Born 14 July 1918, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden · Died 30 July 2007

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish filmmaker and theatre director. 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." Among his most acclaimed works are 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. He was also ranked No. 8 on the magazine's 2002 "Greatest Directors of All Time" list.

Biography adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Critical context from Senses of Cinema