Ingmar Bergman

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul." Bergman directed more than 60 films and documentaries for cinematic release and for television screenings, most of which he also wrote. Most of his films were set in Sweden, and many films from 1961 onward were filmed on the island of Fårö. He also had a theatrical career that ran in parallel with his film career. It included periods as Leading Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and of the Residenztheater in Munich. He directed more than 170 plays. He forged a creative partnership with his cinematographers Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist. Among his company of actors were Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom and Max von Sydow. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ingmar Bergman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Scenes from a Marriage

Johan and Marianne appear to have a stable marriage, but their relationship begins to unravel when Johan reveals an affair. Over the course of several years, the series follows their separation, divorce, and continued interactions as they form new relationships while remaining emotionally bound to one another. Told across six episodes, the narrative traces the changing terms of their intimacy, conflict, and dependency. (Note: This entry covers the 1973 six-part Swedish television miniseries. A condensed theatrical feature assembled from the same material was released separately in 1974.)

Release Date1973-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Press photographer (uncredited)

Episode Count6

Vote Count144

Cries and Whispers

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.

Release Date1972-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count776

Scenes from a Marriage

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

Release Date1974-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Voice of the Press Photographer (uncredited)

Vote Count401

The Passion of Anna

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

Release Date1969-11-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Vote Count199

The Magic Flute

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive.

Release Date1975-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Man in Audience (uncredited)

Vote Count100

Torment

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.

Release Date1944-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Vote Count83

The Rite

Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.

Release Date1969-03-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Priest

Vote Count94

A Lesson in Love

After fifteen years of marriage and mutual infidelity, a couple on the brink of divorce unexpectedly confront their unresolved love during a journey to Copenhagen. Blending farce with emotional reflection, the film is Ingmar Bergman’s first sustained venture into marital comedy.

Release Date1954-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Vote Count73

In the Presence of a Clown

In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.

Release Date1998-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Mental patient

Vote Count32

Dreams

Two women—a fashion executive and her young model—experience parallel romantic disappointments during a trip to Gothenburg, exposing generational differences in desire, illusion, and emotional endurance. A transitional work in Ingmar Bergman’s mid-1950s cinema.

Release Date1955-08-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Man with a poodle at the hotel

Vote Count82

Waiting Women

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.

Release Date1952-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Man in the Stairs at the Gynecologist's (uncredited)

Vote Count72

Thirst

A fractured portrait of desire and isolation, following a failing marriage and parallel stories of emotional entrapment as memories surface during a train journey through postwar Europe. Told through flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, the film signals Ingmar Bergman’s emerging mature style.

Release Date1949-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count71

Music in Darkness

In postwar Sweden, a gifted young pianist’s life is transformed after a tragic accident leaves him blind. Struggling with bitterness, isolation, and the loss of his former world, he finds unexpected support and companionship from a compassionate young woman who helps him rebuild his sense of purpose. As their relationship deepens over the years, both must confront questions of pride, class, and emotional vulnerability in order to move forward.

Release Date1948-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd A Train Passenger Reading a Newspaper (uncredited)

Vote Count50

To Joy

A young orchestra violinist’s fear of mediocrity and drive for artistic success strain his marriage to a fellow musician. Told largely in flashback and shaped by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the film examines ambition, love, and loss in early Ingmar Bergman.

Release Date1950-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Expecting Father at the Maternity Ward (uncredited)

Vote Count73

A Ship to India

Returning home after seven years at sea, a sailor relives his youth aboard a salvage ship dominated by his abusive father, recalling love, betrayal, and the desire to escape. Told in flashback, the film explores family conflict, longing, and moral reckoning in an early milestone of Ingmar Bergman’s career.

Release Date1947-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Man in Beret at Fairground (uncredited)

Vote Count56

Fårö Document

Shot on the island of Fårö, this documentary presents interviews with local inhabitants as they discuss work, family life, and the conditions of living in a sparsely populated rural community. Bergman documents generational differences and practical concerns surrounding farming, fishing, education, and migration as the island confronts social and economic change.

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Reporter (uncredited)

Vote Count20

The Last Gasp

Set in the offices of the Swedish film industry, this television drama stages a fictional encounter between Georg af Klercker, a marginalized silent-film director, and Charles Magnusson, the producer who once controlled his fate. Through their conversation, memories of early Scandinavian cinema and unresolved professional grievances resurface as af Klercker seeks the possibility of returning to filmmaking.

Release Date1995-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Narrator (voice)

Vote Count9

An Image Maker

Making of-documentary about Ingmar Bergman's The Image Makers, featuring behind the scenes footage and an interview with its writer, Per Olov Enquist.

Release Date2001-01-01

Charactersd Himself

The Undefeated Femininity

"The Undefeated Femininity" - a film about Gun Grut Bergman. In September 1949 Ingmar Bergman left his wife and five children, and escaped to Paris with a new woman, Gun Grut. It was the beginning of a passionate love affair, an enduring jealousy drama and a new theme in Bergman's films. Now their son, Ingmar Bergman Jr, walks in his parents' footsteps, from Paris to the home on Grev Turegatan 69 in Stockholm.

Release Date2018-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Fårö Document 1979

Returning to Fårö a decade after his earlier documentary, Ingmar Bergman records the daily lives of farmers, fishermen, and families living on the island. Structured around the four seasons, the film documents labor, communal routines, and reflections on how life on Fårö has changed since the late 1960s.

Release Date1979-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Ingmar Bergman

Vote Count20

Feature 136

Ingmar Bergman's film Winter Light from 1963 is one of the most mythical and discussed films in Swedish history. In this documentary, director Kristian Petri uses unique archival footage to tell about the making of the film and, together with two actors bringing Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman to life, he tells about creativity, friendship, power and fear.

Release Date2018-11-17

Charactersd Himself (archival footage)

Vote Count1

Ingmar Bergman: Intermezzo

Ingmar Bergman speaks with Gunnar Bergdahl.

Release Date2002-01-25

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count6

Ingmar Bergman at 60

Documentary about the Swedish film director, produced for the UK television program "The South Bank."

Release Date1978-07-08

Charactersd Interviewee

The Memory of Ingmar Bergman

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman the Finnish writer and director Jörn Donner shares his memories of his friend and collaborator. The movie is based on two as yet unpublished TV interviews with Bergman which Donner filmed in 1975 and 1987.

Release Date2018-05-15

Charactersd Himself

Bergmans röst

In this 87 minute long conversation with Ingmar Bergman, he talks about his relation to the art of film. He expresses his passion for filmmaking and filmmakers. The film doesn't include any extracts from Bergman's films.

Release Date1997-08-28

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count1

The Dick Cavett Show

The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

Release Date1968-06-06

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Vote Count22

Bambi

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.

Release Date1948-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Guldbagge Awards

The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.

Release Date1981-10-30

Charactersd Self - Best Director winner

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft

Release Date1965-09-24

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Trespassing Bergman

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

Release Date2013-08-28

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count29

Bergman: A Year in a Life

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.

Release Date2018-07-12

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count39

Palme

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a man who altered history.

Release Date2012-09-14

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count32

Bergman's Video

Release Date2012-08-22

Charactersd Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Episode Count6

Heart of the Festival

A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.

Release Date2002-04-16

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count2

Light Keeps Me Company

Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator. A journey to the place of birth, Moheda, constitutes the hub of the film and during the journey friends and memories emerge. Written by Fredrik Klasson

Release Date2000-08-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count9

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable persona which was so genuine and alluring. Her cinematic contributions produced such classics as "Casablanca," "Gaslight" and "Anastasia." But Ingrid's story goes deeper than the triumphs of her movie career.

Release Date1996-04-06

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count6

Ingmar Bergman Complete

The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) looks back on his personal and artistic life; a journey through more than sixty years devoted to film, plays and television programs. (Released in 2006, edited and abridged, as Bergman Island.)

Release Date2004-04-08

Charactersd Self - Filmmaker

Episode Count3

Vote Count6

Filmmakers in Action

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)

Release Date2006-09-15

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count5

Stimulantia

Eight vignettes on a variety of topics, including a baby growing up, Charlie Chaplin, Birgit Nilsson, the racing track at Le Mans, erotic cleanliness, French literature, and a black woman in a cupboard in the neighborhood of Farsta near Stockholm.

Release Date1967-03-28

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Charactersd Self

Vote Count14

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.

Release Date2018-07-12

Charactersd Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

Vote Count15

Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer

A journey through Swedish queer film history.

Release Date2022-02-25

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count8

… But Film Is My Mistress

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence - such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier, the film provides a vivid portrait of the artist who in each new project found a challenge for himself and for the people he worked with - both actors and colleagues behind the camera.

Release Date2010-05-12

Charactersd Self

Vote Count13

Persona: The Film That Saved Ingmar Bergman

In 1965 Ingmar Bergman filmed “Persona”, the cult film that brought together all of the Swedish filmmaker’s obsessions and became a turning point in his career.

Release Date2018-02-07

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count7

Dance Around the Guldbaggen

Filmed during the first ever Guldbaggen (golden scarab) awards, it was edited and developed that night and shown for the first time to the guests at the after party.

Release Date1964-09-25

Charactersd Self

Ingmar Bergman

Portrait of Ingmar Bergman, made while he was working on The Touch, about his professional and private life in the early 1970s.

Release Date1972-03-17

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

I sällskap med en clown

One hour making-of of Bergman's In The Presence of A Clown.

Release Date1997-11-07

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie

The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaimed director. In August, Sjöman and the television crew begin to capture what would become a comprehensive five-part documentary on the making of Winter Light, offering views of script development, set construction and lighting, rehearsals and editing, as well as intimate conversations with Bergman and members of his cast and crew. Footage from the film’s Swedish premiere delivers immediate audience reactions and the critics’ reviews the following day.

Release Date1963-01-27

Charactersd Self

Episode Count5

Året var 1975

This is the year when the Vietnam War ends and terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm. On TV, Staffan Westerberg's "Vilse i Pannkakan" coincides with Ingmar Bergman's "The Magic Flute". Despite the cold war, the USA and the Soviet Union take the opportunity to meet - in space! And Davis Cup tennis is played in Båstad. Sweden meets Chile and the police fear riots. This and much more in "The year was 1975" by Jonas Fohlin and Eva Tillberg.

Release Date2024-12-29

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.

Documentary relating Ingmar Bergman's life, from his high school graduation up until he became an established filmmaker in the latter half of the 40's.

Release Date2018-03-03

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Images from the Playground

In the early fifties Ingmar Bergman got himself a cine-camera, a 9.5 mm Bell & Howell, which he often used both privately and in his work. "Bilder från lekstugan" ("Images from the Playground") embark on these films, giving a diverse representation of one of the greatest artists in cinema.

Release Date2009-09-24

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Viaggio in Bergmania

This is a cinematic pilgrimage by two young Turkish directors to their biggest source of inspiration, Ingmar Bergman. Their desire to approach even further to Bergman and to his work leads them to make this journey from their hometown Istanbul to Sweden, the land of Bergman. Their journey passes through not only to Stockholm, Uppsala, Dalarna, Gotland and of course Faro, but will also be an inner journey to their own selves.

Release Date2011-04-16

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.

Release Date1988-05-24

Charactersd Self

Passion of Anna: Disintegration of Passion

A documentary about En Passion

Release Date2004-01-01

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

Federico Fellini's Autobiography

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...

Release Date2000-09-05

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count10

The Making of Fanny and Alexander

Shot during the making of Fanny and Alexander, this feature-length documentary presents extended behind-the-scenes material from rehearsals and filming sessions, with Bergman at work staging scenes and directing performances. The film focuses on the practical process of production, including collaboration with the principal cast and key crew members such as cinematographer Sven Nykvist and on-set documentarian Arne Carlsson.

Release Date1984-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count20

An Introduction to Ingmar Bergman

Produced in 1968 for New York's WNET public television station and filmed by Gunnar Fischer, host Lewis Freedman visits director Ingmar Bergman during the production of SHAME. They discuss some of Bergman's major works leading up to SHAME as well as the just-released HOUR OF THE WOLF.

Release Date1968-04-14

Charactersd Self

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie

Release Date1963-01-27

Charactersd Self

Vote Count16

Det hender ikke meg

Interviews with Kjell who is a cancer patient, children who smoke and various celebrities on their views and experiences on smoking.

Release Date1979-01-17

Charactersd Self

A Look at Liv

Using original footage and interviews, family photos, and excepts from many of the actress's screen and stage performances, the film explores sources of Liv Ullman's creativity, the influence of her Norwegian heritage, her relationship with Ingmar Bergman, her views on being a woman and mother in contemporary society, and the writing of her autobiography,

Release Date1979-01-31

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work

TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998.

Release Date1998-01-31

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Karin's Face

This short film assembles still photographs from Ingmar Bergman’s personal family albums, concentrating on portraits of his mother, Karin, from childhood through adulthood. The images are arranged in chronological order and set to a piano score by Käbi Laretei, with no spoken narration.

Release Date1986-04-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count22

The Making of Autumn Sonata

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows the production of Autumn Sonata, capturing rehearsals, filming sessions, and discussions during the shoot. The film presents extended observational footage of the working process led by Ingmar Bergman and the principal cast and crew.

Release Date1978-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Marie Göranzon - när rampljuset slocknar

She has been on stage for over sixty years and has played all the great female roles. Now she is working on a new play, but at the same time she is facing the end at the age of 83 – and it doesn’t feel nice. Already in 1969, Marie met her great love, the actor Jan Malmsjö. Now she talks about the great passion that struck her even though she was already married, and about what everyday love looks like in older age.

Release Date2026-04-02

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Directed by Bergman (The Making of Saraband)

A documentary about the production of Ingmar Bergman's TV film "Saraband."

Release Date2003-12-03

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Liv & Ingmar

The 42 year long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.

Release Date2012-09-28

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count25

The Best Musical in the World: Ingmar Bergman on 'The Magic Flute'

An interview with film director Ingmar Bergman, conducted by journalist Sigvard Hammar, originally broadcast on Swedish television.

Release Date1974-12-27

Charactersd Self

Året var 1957

1957 - this is when the space age begins. The Soviets send up Sputnik 1 and 2. The whole world searches the sky for moving stars and the radio amateurs listen in their headphones for beeps from space. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries are shown in cinemas. Stockholm gets its first female parking attendants and Tommy Steele comes to visit.

Release Date2007-01-07

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Bergman Island

The desolate and mysterious island of Fårö, Sweden, Baltic Sea, 2004. Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) looks back on his personal and artistic life; a journey through more than sixty years devoted to film, plays and television programs. (An abridged version of Ingmar Bergman Complete, 2004; a collection of three thematic documentaries: Bergman and Film; Bergman and Theater; and Bergman and Fårö Island.)

Release Date2006-04-12

Charactersd Self - Filmmaker

Vote Count18

The Search for Sanity

A short documentary about Hour of the Wolf.

Release Date2004-04-20

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Bergmans Hushållerska

Anita Haglöf was Ingmar Bergman's housekeeper for eight years, in his home at Karlaplan in Stockholm and at Fårö. She constantly accused him of harassment in her diary, but didn't quit the job.

Release Date2009-01-01

Charactersd Self (Archive Footage)

Vote Count3

Foto: Sven Nykvist

A short documentary about the work of Swedish cinematographer and Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Sven Nykvist, emphasizing his style of lighting and sense of humanity through interviews and film clips from key Bergman and Nykvist productions.

Release Date1973-12-31

Charactersd Self

Ingmar Bergman in Iceland

Based on an interview with Ingmar Bergman and footage taken during the director's visit to the Reykjavík Art Festival in 1986, this film focuses on Mr. Bergman's methods and philosophy on film direction.

Release Date1989-01-15

Charactersd Self

Daniel

This short film consists of 16mm home-movie footage recorded by Ingmar Bergman during the first two years of his son Daniel’s life, beginning shortly before his birth and continuing through early childhood. The material was edited by Bergman as an independent segment for inclusion in the 1967 Swedish anthology film Stimulantia.

Release Date1967-03-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Sven-Bertil

Interpreter, actor and entertainer. Sven-Bertil Taubes' career spans almost a lifetime. As the son of two legendary artists, he had a lot to live up to. This is the story of Sven-Bertil Taubes' life, told in his own words. It will be a journey through nine decades.

Release Date2016-11-12

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Ingmar Bergman Bids Farewell to Film

A conversation between Bergman and film critic Nils Petter Sundgren recorded for Swedish television in 1984.

Release Date2004-11-16

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Ingmar Bergman - Herr der Dämonen

Release Date2018-07-14

Charactersd Self (archive)

Vote Count1

Året var 1976

1976 brings several events that leave their mark on Sweden. Silvia Sommerlath marries King Carl Gustaf, and Thorbjörn Fälldin takes over as the new prime minister. On the music scene, international visits stand out when the rock bands Kiss and Sweet come to Sweden. And as Christmas approaches, Trazan Apansson appears on the TV screen for the very first time.

Release Date2025-12-28

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

Silence! Cameras! The Magic Flute!

A documentary behind the scenes of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute.

Release Date1975-01-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Release Date1970-10-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Scenes from a Marriage

A chronicle of the many years of love and turmoil that bind a contemporary American couple, tracking their relationship as it progresses through a number of successive stages: matrimony, parenthood, infidelity, divorce and subsequent partnerships.

Release Date2021-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Series Creator

Episode Count5

Vote Count344

Fanny and Alexander

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

Release Date1984-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count146

The Seventh Seal

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.

Release Date1957-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3327

Persona

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.

Release Date1966-10-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2396

Wild Strawberries

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.

Release Date1957-08-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1798

Faithless

In the twilight of his life, a filmmaker reunites with a woman who was once his best friend's partner and confronts the story of their affair.

Release Date2025-01-26

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

Autumn Sonata

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional night, the pair reopen the wounds of the past. Charlotte gets another shock when she finds out that her mentally impaired daughter, Helena, is out of the asylum and living with Eva.

Release Date1978-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count702

Fanny and Alexander

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.

Release Date1982-12-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count877

The Virgin Spring

Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

Release Date1960-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count674

Face to Face

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 four-part Swedish television miniseries. A condensed theatrical feature edited from the same material was released separately in 1976.)

Release Date1976-04-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

Hour of the Wolf

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Release Date1968-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count554

Winter Light

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

Release Date1963-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count498

Face to Face

A psychiatrist temporarily separated from her family begins to experience severe psychological distress while working at a mental hospital and returning to her childhood home. As her professional responsibilities and personal relationships intersect, she undergoes a breakdown that forces her to confront long-suppressed memories and fears. (Note: This entry refers to the 1976 theatrical feature film (approximately 135 minutes), created by condensing and re-editing the four-part Swedish television miniseries originally produced the same year.)

Release Date1976-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count137

The Best Intentions

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

Release Date1992-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count73

Madame de Sade

This television production captures Ingmar Bergman’s stage adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s Madame de Sade, set in France from 1772 to the aftermath of the French Revolution. While the Marquis de Sade remains imprisoned, six women—including his wife Renée—debate his actions, reputation, and meaning, revealing conflicting views on devotion, morality, and power.

Release Date1992-04-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

The Silence

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Release Date1963-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count400

Summer with Monika

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Release Date1953-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count394

Sawdust and Tinsel

A number of complicated relationships develop between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.

Release Date1953-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count159

Palermo Shooting

After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?

Release Date2008-11-20

DepartmentCrew

JobIn Memory Of

Vote Count63

The Magician

A traveling magician and his troupe arrive in a Swedish town in the 1840s, where their act is scrutinized by local authorities and a skeptical medical official. Their stay leads to a series of confrontations that test the boundaries between performance, belief, and deception.

Release Date1958-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count245

The Best Intentions

The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.

Release Date1991-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count9

The Touch

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

Release Date1971-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count57

The Serpent's Egg

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

Release Date1977-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count126

Through a Glass Darkly

Karin hopes to recover from her recent stay at a mental hospital by spending the summer at her family's cottage on a tiny island. Her husband, Martin, cares for her but is frustrated by her physical withdrawal. Her younger brother, Minus, is confused by Karin's vulnerability and his own budding sexuality. Their father, David, cannot overcome his haughty remoteness. Beset by visions, Karin descends further into madness.

Release Date1961-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count536

Smiles of a Summer Night

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

Release Date1955-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count271

Summer Interlude

During a brief summer vacation, a lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years earlier.

Release Date1951-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count174

Shame

In the midst of a civil war, a pair of former violinists in a tempestuous marriage oversee a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Release Date1968-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count242

Confessions of a Fool

Based on August Strindberg’s autobiographical novel about his marriage to Siri von Essen. She was married when she met him, but abandoned her husband, became Strindberg’s mistress and later his wife.

Release Date1976-11-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Vote Count4

The Devil's Eye

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission: to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes frantic when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.

Release Date1960-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count117

From the Life of the Marionettes

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.

Release Date1980-10-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count116

Faithless

Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.

Release Date2000-09-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count51

Saraband

Reuniting the characters of Johan and Marianne three decades after "Scenes from a Marriage," "Saraband" follows Marianne’s visit to her reclusive ex-husband, where she finds him locked in a destructive conflict with his troubled son Henrik and Henrik’s musically gifted daughter Karin. Told as an intimate chamber drama, the film explores love, resentment, forgiveness, and the inescapable pull of family bonds.

Release Date2003-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count128

Port of Call

A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.

Release Date1948-10-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count69

Rabies

Structured as six interconnected episodes, Rabies depicts cruelty as a contagious force: each character, wounded or humiliated, passes that violence on to another. Filmed for Swedish television, Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Olle Hedberg’s morality play presents human behavior as a relentless chain of transferred suffering.

Release Date1958-11-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

The Lie

From an Ingmar Bergman script. Previously produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" and for the BBC as "The Lie" (both 1970). In this Emmy award winning American version for CBS’s reboot of Playhouse 90, an American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.

Release Date1973-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The School of Wives

This television adaptation presents Molière’s comedy The School of Wives, centering on Arnolphe, an older bachelor who plans to marry his young ward, Agnès, believing her innocence will ensure his control. His scheme is disrupted when Agnès falls in love with the younger Horace, setting off a series of deceptions and confrontations that undermine Arnolphe’s authority.

Release Date1983-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Brink of Life

This intimate chamber drama, set in a maternity ward, follows the emotional crises of three women as they grapple with motherhood.

Release Date1958-03-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count95

It Rains on Our Love

A young couple, penniless, break into a summer cottage; the owner offers to rent to them but he has ulterior motives. By living together, the lovers must face their pasts and contend with the meddling neighbors and authorities.

Release Date1946-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count62

Private Confessions

Five conversations frame a flawed marriage in this film written by Ingmar Bergman about his parents. Guilt-ridden wife Anna (Pernilla August) divulges an extramarital affair to a priest, her uncle Jacob (Max von Sydow). He presses her to confess her sins to her husband, Henrik. As the film moves back and forth in time, the notion of truth is tested. Tomas, the lover, and Henrik will find that Anna's confessions do not absolve anyone, and have the power to inflict more pain.

Release Date1996-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

Prison

A filmmaker sets out to create the greatest film in history, but finds out that human abilities have limits.

Release Date1949-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count53

Don Juan

This television adaptation retells the story of Dom Juan, an aristocratic libertine whose serial seductions culminate in a fatal confrontation with a supernatural avenger. The production presents the classic Don Juan legend in a comic tone for television.

Release Date1965-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Lie

Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal

Release Date1970-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Divorced

Gertrud is being abandoned by her husband after 20 years of marriage. Offended and unhappy she leaves her home and rents a room. The landlady's son is drawn to her and tries to help her out of the loneliness.

Release Date1951-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

Sunday's Children

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

Release Date1992-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count15

After the Rehearsal

Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ostensibly looking for a bracelet. She is the lead in his new production of Strindberg's A Dream Play. She talks of her hatred for her mother, now dead, an alcoholic actress, who was Vogler's star and lover.

Release Date1984-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count70

Eva

Marine Bo Fredriksson is travelling home on a leave. He reminisce about an accident he caused as a 12-year old which killed a young girl, an event that has made him feel revulsion for death. Back home he meets Eva, a girl he fancies and they move together to Stockholm to start a life together.

Release Date1948-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count18

Crisis

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's biological mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Release Date1946-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count107

The Storm

An elderly gentleman lives alone in a well-appointed residential building, spending his days in habitual routines with neighbors and family. When his former wife—who left years earlier with their child—moves into the apartment above him, long-suppressed tensions resurface, leading to a series of charged encounters.

Release Date1960-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

This Can't Happen Here

A story of two married refugees from the dictatorship; their quiet life in a new free country is impossible due to the husband's dark secret.

Release Date1950-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

The Pleasure Garden

A small picturesque town at the turn of the century. The conservative views of the townspeople are shaken when they find out that the school teacher Franzén published his own poetry anonymously many years ago. At the same time he acknowledges his love affair with a waitress at the city hotel, Fanny. What is most upsetting is the fact that Fanny has a grownup daughter, Anna, with no known father. Could their poet teacher be the father although he and Fanny are not married?

Release Date1961-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

A Dream Play

A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

Release Date1963-05-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

The Minister of Uddarbo

A devoted but controversial priest comes to a Swedish village. He encounters conflicts with the locals. The priest has some problems within his family as well. One is related to an orphan girl.

Release Date1957-12-26

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Writing

Vote Count1

The Bacchae

The young wine god Dionysus returns to his native town of Thebes after having established his cult in the east. In his entourage, he has a run of Bacchantes. Semele, his mother, was distrusted by her family when she claimed that Zeus was the father of her child. Dionysus has come to restore her, revealing his divinity, and require proper worship of the Theban legion.

Release Date1993-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

All These Women

Pretentious critic Cornelius is writing a biography on a famous cellist and to do some research he stays in the cellist's house for a few days. He doesn't manage to get an interview with the man, but by talking to all the women who live with him, he comes to learn a lot about the musician's private life none the less. Cornelius then decides to use this information to blackmail the cellist into performing a composition that he, Cornelius, has written.

Release Date1964-06-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count61

Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

A young woman faces an arranged marriage imposed by her aunts as the hour of her suitor’s arrival approaches. Adapted for television from Hjalmar Bergman’s one-act play, the film uses intimate staging and close observation to explore coercion and quiet despair.

Release Date1957-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

The Blessed Ones

Middle-aged schoolteacher Viveka and her husband Sune enter a marriage marked by devotion and increasing strain. As Viveka’s jealousy and religious anxiety intensify into paranoid delusions, Sune becomes progressively entangled in her condition, transforming their relationship into a shared psychological collapse.

Release Date1986-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Summer Paradise

Conventions of civility among family members are severely strained by the very real breakup of the bonds between them. During a few days at a vacation home, Katha, a woman in late middle age, tries to cope with an influx of discontented, disconnected relatives. Her divorced daughter brings all sorts of people to the house, including a woman-friend accompanied by her psychotic son; the grandfather of the house is convinced he is dying and is satisfied by nothing; and some friends drop off their angry teenage son to stay with her, while they go on a long trip abroad. Her friend Emma doesn't help much with keeping a lid on things, as she is a social worker who is fascinated by the awfulness of these situations.

Release Date1977-04-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

While the City Sleeps

Jompa is unemployed - and not keen on getting a job. He still lives with his parents who are tired of his attitude about employment and regular hours. Jompa and his friends spend their time at nightclubs, cafés and doing petty crimes. While playing poker, Jompa becomes indebted to the criminal Kalle Lund. Of course, Jompa is unable to pay, but Kalle gives him a tip: an old fetcher has always a lot of money at home, and if Jompa could get his hands on the money, his troubles would disappear... Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

Release Date1950-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Min älskade

"My Love" - A drama rich in symbols about an unsuccessful Norwegian bookseller. With a bag filled with quirky literature he wanders through Stockholm, trying to find book buyers.

Release Date1979-03-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

A Spiritual Matter

"A Spiritual Matter" is the first-ever adaptation of an Ingmar Bergman script since his passing. In this movie, Viktoria is a 40-year-old woman who seems to have gone mad and develops a compelling and moving monologue of moments that marked her existence. Viktoria (Sophie Marceau), a bishop's daughter and pastor's wife, talks to herself and reveals her intimate world: her joys and woes, her childhood and her relationship with her cheating and aloof husband. She voyages from life to life, seemingly playing several roles. She remembers, dreams, fantasizes and hallucinates, bringing back to life her late husband, mother, father and friends.

Release Date2015-12-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count17

The Misanthrope

This television film records Ingmar Bergman’s Copenhagen stage production of Molière’s The Misanthrope, presented as a guest performance at the Royal Danish Theatre. The play centers on Alceste, a man who rejects social hypocrisy and flattery, whose rigid principles are tested by his love for the socially adept Célimène.

Release Date1974-05-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Woman Without a Face

Martin is married to Frida and together they have a son. One day after a quarrel with his wife, he goes to buy flowers to ask for forgiveness. In the flower shop he meets the beautiful Rut and falls instantly in love. They both start a passionate love affair but beneath the beautiful surface hides a completely different woman than he expected ...

Release Date1947-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

Wood Painting

A knight returning home with his squire Jons after a ten-year crusade to the Holy Land finds a country paralyzed by the Black Death, a newly burned witch, a blacksmith and his runaway wife, an actress, a Virgin Mary with her child and the knight's faithful wife. All approaches the realm of the dead in a single "tragicomic long dance of death". The narrator begins with: "In a church in southern Småland is our spectacle painted on the wall just to the right of the entrance to the porch. The unknown painter has on the church wall depicted a number of people in formal long dance toward death."

Release Date1963-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

The Image Makers

Set in 1920, The Image Makers depicts a private screening at Svensk Filmindustri, where silent-era director Victor Sjöström presents scenes from his adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf’s The Phantom Carriage. As the Nobel Prize–winning author watches alongside cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and young actress Tora Teje, tensions emerge between generations, genders, and artistic roles, exposing the emotional costs behind creation.

Release Date2000-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

The Ghost Sonata

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.

Release Date2007-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Unishe April

A female dancer becomes famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way.

Release Date1994-11-18

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Concept

Vote Count10

The Lie

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno.

Release Date1970-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Last Pair Out

About the life of the student, Bo Dahlin. Bo's parents are divorced. Both have been unfaithful. Bo is engaged to Kerstin, but only has eyes for Anita. Anita is filled with self-disgust.

Release Date1956-11-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

New York City Opera: A Little Night Music

Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, a tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love her: lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When Desirée's show travels through Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles.

Release Date1990-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count5

Night Light

Sixteen year old Maria arrives in Stockholm. She is going to stay with her aunt. Already at the Central station events occur that change her route.

Release Date1957-10-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Vote Count6

Dom Juan

Filmed for television, this production adapts Molière’s Dom Juan (or The Feast with the Statue), following the final days of the libertine Dom Juan Tenorio as he seduces, deceives, and provokes those around him. His servant Sganarelle serves as a constant companion and observer, accompanying Dom Juan toward the reckoning implied by the play’s statue motif.

Release Date1985-04-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Short Cuts: Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman's "Cries and Whispers" retold in a single minute.

Release Date2020-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count3

Sally and Freedom

About choices in life and responsibilities. Sally has decided to have an abortion. It seriously affects her relationship with her partner Jonas, and their daughter Mia.

Release Date1981-02-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count3

Persona

Release Date2019-05-18

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count1

Rätt ut i luften

An actress is interviewed in front of a studio audience by a "TV personality".

Release Date1978-09-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Harald & Harald

This short television work stages two performers reading excerpts from the Swedish Government’s Cultural Commission report (SOU 1995:84). Using largely unaltered bureaucratic language, the piece transforms the official text into a restrained satire of cultural policy and administration.

Release Date1996-01-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer's Eye

Four of Sweden's most innovative choreographers travel to Ingmar Bergman's home on Fårö to explore and get inspired. The result is a unique contemporary dance film.The renowned Swedish choreographers Alexander Ekman, Pär Isberg, Pontus Lidberg and Joakim Stephenson, with principal dancers Jenny Nilson, Nathalie Nordquist, Oscar Salomonsson and Nadja Sellrup from the Royal Swedish Ballet, interpret Ingmar Bergman through four unique dance performances reflecting on human relations and intense feelings. The dances are linked together with images of the epic natural beauty of Fårö and Bergman's poetic home Hammars, including the voice of the master himself - Ingmar Bergman - revealing his thoughts about movements and music.

Release Date2016-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Fanny och Alexander på Galeasen

Ingmar Bergman's classic film adapted for the stage.

Release Date2025-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

The Dance of the Damned Women

This short dance film presents four women moving within a narrow, enclosed room to music by Claudio Monteverdi. Conceived as a dance play rather than a ballet, the performers embody recurring female roles passed down across generations, including figures identified as damned souls, death, and a child compelled into the same patterns.

Release Date1976-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

Bergman's Sonata

A married daughter who longs for her mother’s love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.

Release Date2005-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Venetian

A playful television adaptation of a Renaissance sex comedy in which two Venetian women compete for the attentions of a charming outsider during carnival. Deliberately theatrical and stylized, the film reflects Bergman’s interest in farce and performance.

Release Date1958-02-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

The City

A man has buried himself in women, in religious ecstasy , in vanity and in his belief in so-called artistic activity. His tension and frustration has only increased. And now he gives it all up. Awaits the bailiff. His personal bankruptcy is signed.

Release Date1962-03-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Behind the Scenes of Wild Strawberries

A short documentary capturing behind-the-scenes footage from the production of Wild Strawberries, offering a glimpse of Ingmar Bergman at work with his cast and crew during the making of one of his most celebrated films.

Release Date1957-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Laterna Magica

A film by Séverine Barde, adapted from Dorian Rossel's play, based on Ingmar Bergman's fictional autobiography. A powerful self-portrait, at the crossroads of theater and cinema, from the collection De la scène à l'écran.

Release Date2025-05-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Gotska Sandön

A poetic documentary of its nature and of some rare people living on Gotska Sandön, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea, close to Ingmar Bergman’s home residence Fårö.

Release Date1987-06-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Confidential Conversations

A film adaptation of an excerpt from Ingmar Bergman's book about Anna, a priest's wife and mother of three children, who has fallen in love and wants to leave her family. But before making such a difficult and important decision, she invites her mentor, Uncle Jakub, for a confidential conversation.

Release Date2021-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobShort Story

Hollywood sul Tevere

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

Release Date2009-09-07

Skäggen

"The Beards" - The framework was that the participants would produce a relatively current entertainment program titled Concrete. During the meetings ideas and sketches were presented. Most of it was rejected.

Release Date1963-03-09

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Filmstaden

'Filmstaden', a film studio in Stockholm where directors Victor Sjöström, Mauritz Stiller, Ingmar Bergman among others worked - as well as many prominent actors - was built 1919-1920. This documentary tells its rich history featuring many of the people involved.

Release Date2001-01-01

Three Scenes with Ingmar Bergman

"Three Scenes with Ingmar Bergman" is quite an interesting documentary which is basically a sequence of interviews with Ingmar Bergman where Bergman himself talks about his life and work, beginning with his birth and childhood, relationship with his parents, particularly with his father, which had influence on his work later. Then he talks about how he became writer and than director at Film Studious in Stokholm and about the movies he made during this period. Then he describes how he discovered the island of Faro and come to live and work there later. Particularly interesting because of it's autobiographical aspect: we see Ingmar Bergman´s life and how he made his films through his own eyes and described with his own words.

Release Date1976-01-23

Vote Count1

Victor Sjöström - A Portrait

Documentary of the Swedish actor/director Victor Sjöström and his work - from Terje Vigen (1917) to Smultronstället (1957) Director Ingmar Bergman is interviewed about his memories of and experiences of Sjöström.

Release Date1981-01-01

Vote Count5

Intervju med Ingmar Bergman

Interview with Ingmar Bergman by the Swedish Film Institute's then CEO Jörn Donner about the filming of Fanny and Alexander.

Release Date1981-01-01

Shame: The Search for Humanity

A short documentary about Skammen

Release Date2004-04-20

Ingmar Bergman: Reflections on Life, Death, and Love

Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous people about their public and private lives. Through the noted Swedish actor Erland Josephson, Malou extended an invitation to the legendary -- and notoriously reclusive -- director Ingmar Bergman to appear on her show. To Malou's surprise, Bergman agreed, under the condition that Josephson appear on the show with him. In the course of this 52-minute interview, Bergman discusses his personal life rather than his films, shedding light on his temper, his mood swings, his problems with women, his marriage, and the trials of his advancing age. The interview was later re-edited into expanded form for international release as Malou Meets Ingmar Bergman and Erland Josephson. The documentary was screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

Release Date2000-03-13

Vote Count2

Bergman Unpublished

In 2017, journalist and filmmaker Marie Nyreröd created this series of topical short films using outtakes from footage she had recorded with director Ingmar Bergman for her 2006 feature documentary BERGMAN ISLAND.

Release Date2017-12-31

Döden, motljuset och groggen

Ingmar Bergman tells Olle Häger about "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries". 1957 was one of Ingmar Bergman's great years. Then both "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries" had their theatrical premieres. In an interview, which was conducted at Fårö the summer of 2006, the then 87-year-old director talks about what he considers the happiest years of his professional life.

Release Date2007-01-27

Inför Markisinnan de Sade

Release Date1992-04-17

Vote Count1

Bergman 101

In this 2009 video piece, film scholar Peter Cowie walks us through Ingmar Bergman’s career by way of film stills, behind-the-scenes photos, and clips from many of the director’s films and television productions.

Release Date2009-01-01

Introducing 'Scenes from a Marriage'

A short documentary about "Scenes from a Marriage" (1973).

Release Date1986-07-07

Vote Count1

Ingmar Bergman inszeniert: „Ein Traumspiel“ von August Strindberg. Beobachtungen bei der Arbeit am Bayerischen Staatsschauspiel

Release Date1977-09-29