Ingmar Bergman Filmography

Bergman Complete

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreroed

Synopsis: After achieving international recognition in the 1950's with such films as Det Sjunde Inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal), Smultronstället (aka Wild Strawberries) and Sommarnattens Leende (aka Smiles of a Summer Night), Ingmar Berman became one of the world's best known filmmakers for his emotionally Read More

Saraband

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: As the final masterwork of Ingmar Bergman, the world's most revered cinematic craftsperson, Saraband (2003) embodies the sequel to the director's 5-hour Scenes from a Marriage, produced and directed 30 years after that original epic. Here, Bergman revisits the two characters from that film Read More

Ingmar Bergman: Intermezzo

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Gunnar Bergdahl

Faithless

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lena Endre, Erland Josephson, Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon

Synopsis: Renowned actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann helms this bleak, nuanced film about marriage and betrayal penned by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The story is straightforward -- Marianne Vogler (Lena Endre) is a beautiful actress who is married to Markus (Thomas Hanzon), whose job as an Read More

Malou Moter Ingmar Bergman Och Erland Josephson

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Light Keeps Me Company

Actors: Woody Allen, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Richard Attenborough

Synopsis: This moving, finely-wrought portrayal of legendary cinematographer Sven Nykvist was directed by his son Carl-Gustav Nykvist -- a noted filmmaker himself. Spanning from long forgotten kiddie flick in 1945 to Woody Allen's Celebrity (1997), Nykvist's career came to an abrupt end when he was Read More

Larmar och Gor Sig Till

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson, Pernilla August, Anita Björk

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman, at age 80, wrote and directed this Swedish TV movie based on his own family. The original Swedish title is a reference to Act V, Scene V of Macbeth. Divided into four parts and featuring a white-faced clown (Agneta Ekmanner) throughout, the drama begins in 1925 at Uppsala Read More

Sista Skriket

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Though only active in early Swedish cinema for two years, filmmaker Georg af Klercker was prolific and influential. Between 1916 and late 1918, he made 10 shorts and 18 feature-length movies in his independent studio. Klercker was forcibly bought out by his chief competitor Charles Magnusson in Read More

Enskilda Samtal

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pernilla August, Samuel Fröler, Max von Sydow, Thomas Hanzon

Synopsis: Originally made for television and directed by distinguished Swedish actress-turned-director Liv Ullman, this provocative drama is a sequel to director-turned-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical Bille August-directed drama Best Intentions (1992). Returning to their roles of Bergman's Read More

Bergmans Rost

Synopsis: In this documentary, one of the world's most influential directors, Ingmar Bergman spends an hour and a half discussing cinema and what it means to him. First-time director Gunnar Bergdahl filmed Bergman without the distraction of narration, intrusive questions, music and film clips. Shooting the Read More

The Best Intentions

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Lennart Hjulström

Synopsis: Scripted (but not directed) by Ingmar Bergman, Best Intentions is a multilayered backwards glance at the courtship of Bergman's own parents. Henrik Bergman (Samuel Froler) is a struggling theology student in the year 1909. His intended, Anna Aakerbloom (Pernilla August, who married director Bille Read More

Soendagsbarn

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Tommy Berggren, Lena Endre

Synopsis: Written by pantheon Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Sunday's Children was directed by Bergman's son Daniel. This intensely autobiographical film takes place when the elder Bergman was a child of eight. In a near-cathartic fashion, the story illustrates the strained relationship between young Read More

After the Rehearsal

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lena Olin, Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman's After the Rehearsal stars Erland Josephson as a theater director named Henrik Volger. He is in the midst of mounting a production of a Strindberg play when he is visited by Anna Egerman (Lena Olin), an actress whom he has cast in the play. Volger was involved with Anna's mother Read More

Behind the Screen: Stories of Cinema - The Making of Fanny and Alexander

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Swedish director Ingmar Bergman considered Fanny and Alexander "the sum total of his life as a filmmaker." He made this documentary as a chronicle of the creation of that film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dokument: Fanny Och Alexander

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Shot as a record of Ingmar Bergman's directing techniques while he was making Fanny and Alexander, this informative documentary is geared more to the filmmaker and film buff or Bergman fans than it is toward a general audience. The famous Swedish icon is shown acting out scenes as he would like Read More

Fanny & Alexander

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt, Allan Edwall

Synopsis: Though he made allusions to his own life in all of his films, Fanny and Alexander was the first overtly autobiographical film by Ingmar Bergman. Taking his time throughout (188 minutes to be exact), Bergman recreates several episodes from his youth, using as conduits the fictional Ekdahl family. Read More

Fanny & Alexander

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Gunn Wållgren, Börje Ahlstedt, Allan Edwall

Sally Och Friheten

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ewa Fröling, Leif Ahrle, Gunn Wållgren, Oscar Ljung

Synopsis: In a characterization that twists and turns like an insomniac, (Ewa Froeling) does the best she can with the female lead, Sally. The "liberated" Sally (a social worker) first wants to marry, and did marry Jonas, the lawyer. She wanted a child and did have little Mia. She does not want another Read More

Aus Dem Leben Der Marionetten

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath, Rita Russek

Synopsis: Produced and directed for German television, Ingmar Bergman's From the Life of the Marionettes starts out in color and switches almost immediately to black-and-white. This cinematic self-indulgence is ideally suited to the subject matter: the horrible consequences of a rapidly disintegrating Read More

Fårödokument 1979

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In 1969, Ingmar Bergman crafted a little-seen documentary entitled Fårodökument - a sociological portrait of a Scandinavian island called Faro, off the coast of Gotland in southeastern Sweden. Bergman was fascinated by the extremes in climate, which make the island unbearably cold and practically Read More

Min aelskade

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Björn Skagestad, Lena Nyman, Agneta Ekmanner, Keve Hjelm

Synopsis: John and Disa are a decent couple; she is level-headed, and he has a pretty good job. A handsome lad, much given to idealistic musings, his poorly thought-out ethical ditherings cause him to lose both his job and his wife. His only friend is Bernhard, an older rich man, who cannot offer him much Read More

Autumn Sonata

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Georg Lökkeberg, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers and Sweden's most honored director, worked together for the first and only time in this intensely personal drama about the troubled relationship Read More

A Look at Liv

Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann

Synopsis: This 1977 documentary feature closely examines the person, views and life of Norwegian actress Liv Ullman, perhaps best known for her many appearances in the famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's films. Clips of her films are included, as well as numerous interviews granted by her especially for Read More

The Serpent's Egg

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe, Heinz Bennent, James Whitmore

Synopsis: The Serpent's Egg, or Das Schlangenei is director Ingmar Bergman's second English language production (The Touch was his first). It is, however, his first completely non-Swedish production, made after his voluntary self-exile from Sweden over taxation issues. Set in Berlin in the early 1920s, it Read More

Ansikte mot Ansikte

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Kari Sylwan

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays Dr. Jenny Isakson, a psychiatrist who is taking a vacation while her husband Dr. Erik Isakson (Sven Lindberg) is elsewhere. Haunted by visions of an old woman, Jenny suffers from profound, inexplicable depression. Desperately in search of a escape from her doldrums, she has an Read More

The Magic Flute

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Josef Kostlinger, Irma Urrila, Ulrik Gold, Erik Saeden, Birgit Nordin, Håkan Hagegård

Synopsis: A longtime pet project of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute was finally brought to the screen in 1973. While the opera itself is offered in a highly stylized and theatrical fashion, the fluidity of the camerawork turns the affair into a purely Read More

Scenes from a Marriage

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

Synopsis: Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a close-up examination of a relationship as it slowly falls apart, and investigates the toll it takes on both parties. Johan and Marianne (Erland Josephson Read More

Scenes From a Marriage

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Jan Malmsjö, Anita Wall

Cries and Whispers

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point Read More

The Touch

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Elliott Gould, Max von Sydow, Sheila Reid, Staffan Hallerstam

Synopsis: This was famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's first English-language film, the story of a contented young wife and mother whose marriage is disrupted by an inexplicable attraction. Bergman regular Bibi Andersson plays Karin Vergerus, who is married to a prominent but stodgy surgeon, Andreas (Max Von Sydow Read More

Fårödokument

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman conducts interviews of the residents of Faaroe Island. With 700 mostly elderly inhabitants, the school is in danger of closing, and employment prospects for younger people are grim. The director makes a plea for help from the government to allow the islanders to remain, in the wake Read More

The Passion of Anna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell

Synopsis: Liv Ullmann plays the widowed, crippled Anna Fromm, who while traveling on a remote island calls upon reclusive ex-convict Andreas (Max von Sydow) in order to use his telephone. After Anna leaves, Andreas discovers she's left her purse behind; he opens it, hoping to find some identification. A Read More

Riten

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand, Erik Hell

Synopsis: The Ritual is an alternate English-language title for Ingmar Bergman's The Rite (Riten). Made for Swedish television in 1969, this short film was Bergman's revenge against those who opposed his management of the Royal Dramatic Theatre. The storyline involves three actors whose recent production Read More

Hour of the Wolf

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Gertrud Fridh, Bertil Anderberg

Synopsis: The Hour of the Wolf (original Swedish title: Vargtimmen) is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. Max von Sydow plays a painter who, while spending a summer in seclusion with his pregnant wife Liv Ullmann, is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. Before Read More

Shame

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Hans Alfredson, Birgitta Valberg

Synopsis: Shame demonstrates the futility of escaping the consequences of war. In 1971, the Rosenbergs, Jan (Max von Sydow) and Eva (Liv Ullmann), have retreated to an island off the coast of their unnamed country, which is embroiled in a civil conflict. Trained and employed as classical violinists, they Read More

Stimulantia

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Persona

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margareta Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström

Synopsis: Persona is difficult to characterize in simple terms, but it may be helpful to describe this complex film as being an exploration of identity that combines elements of drama, visual poetry, and modern psychology. The central story revolves around a young nurse named Alma (Bibi Andersson) and her Read More

För Att Inte Tala Om Alla Dessa Kvinnor

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Carl Billquist, Jarl Kulle, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Karin Kavli

Synopsis: What is so rare, and cherishable, as an Ingmar Bergman comedy? All These Women concerns the sexual misadventures of cello-playing Jarl Kulle. Amidst his many romantic pursuits, the egotistical Kulle endeavors to get his life story published, "bribing" a writer by agreeing to perform the latter's Read More

The Silence

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström, Hakan Jahnberb, Birger Malmsten

Synopsis: The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy about faith and redemption (with Through A Glass Darkly and Winter Light) is a stark and enigmatic allegory fueled by subtle performances from Ingrid Thulin and Gunnel Lindblom. Thulin plays Ester, a translator and intellectual, who is traveling back to Read More

Winter Light

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Allan Edwall

Synopsis: The Winter Light is the second in a trilogy of dramas by acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman that explores religious faith and doubts in a visceral, visual, and provocative manner. The first, Through a Glass Darkly, was an international success and heralded this new phase in the director's Read More

Through a Glass Darkly

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Lars Passgård

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman won his second Best Foreign Film Oscar for the moody family drama Through a Glass Darkly. It is the first of what came to be called his "chamber dramas," which positioned four characters in one place where they could interact like a string quartet. It has also been referred to as Read More

The Devil's Eye

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Nils Poppe, Gertrud Fridh, Sture Lagerwall

Synopsis: Acceding to the literal interpretation of the folk-saying "A virgin is a sty in the devil's eye," Satan employs a reincarnated Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) to seduce Britt-Marie, the young daughter (Bibi Andersson) of a country parson. Poor Don Juan falls in love with the girl, however, while his servant Read More

The Virgin Spring

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Brigitta Pettersson, Birgitta Pettersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Axel Duberg

Synopsis: Inspired by a medieval Swedish ballad, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukallan) begins with a scene of unspeakable brutality and ends with an image of uncommon beauty. 15-year-old Birgitta Peterson, on her way to church to light candles for the Virgin Mary, is raped and murdered by two Read More

Nära Livet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Eva Dahlbeck, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Brink of Life (original Swedish title: Nara Livet) can be described as an Ingmar Bergman potboiler--keeping in mind that a potboiler from Bergman is better than a major production from almost anyone else. Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin and Bibi Andersson portray three mothers in a maternity ward. In Read More

Ansiktet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Naima Wifstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Much better known in the U.S. as The Magician, this award-winning, surreal, evocative drama stars Max von Sydow as the title character and features several of Sweden's top performers. Set in the 1840s in Stockholm, the mystery and enigma of life and death itself are embodied in Vogler, the Read More

Wild Strawberries

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Folke Sundquist

Synopsis: After exploring his disillusionment with religion in his previous films, Ingmar Bergman adopted a humanistic approach for this classic study in isolationism. Legendary Scandinavian director Victor Sjöström stars as Isak Borg, an aging medical professor who reassesses his life while journeying to Read More

The Seventh Seal

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson

Synopsis: Endlessly imitated and parodied, Ingmar Bergman's landmark art movie The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet) retains its ability to hold an audience spellbound. Bergman regular Max von Sydow stars as a 14th century knight named Antonius Block, wearily heading home after ten years' worth of combat. Read More

Sista Paret Ut

Crew: Screenwriter

Smiles of a Summer Night

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlquist, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jarl Kulle

Synopsis: Bergman's comic masterpiece opens with middle-aged lawyer Frederik Egerman (Gunnar Bjornstrand) again failing to consummate his marriage with the much younger Anne (Ulla Jacobsson). While visiting a former lover, actress Desiree Armfeldt (Eva Dahlbeck), he crosses swords with her current lover Read More

Kvinnodröm

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Sven Lindberg, Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis: Not even Ingmar Bergman was prone to discuss his obscure 1955 production Dreams. While on vacation, photo agency owner Susanne (Eva Dahlbeck) hopes to rendezvous with her married lover. The man's wife puts the kibosh on this, whereupon Susanne enters into an affair with diplomat Sanderby Gunnar Bjornstrand Read More

En Lektion i Kärlek

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand, Eva Dahlbeck, Yvonne Lombard, Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg

Synopsis: En Lektion i Kärlek constitutes one of Ingmar Bergman's more overtly entertaining films. In this highly engaging comedy, Bergman reunites Gunnar Bjornstrand and Eva Dahlbeck, who had already teamed to great effect in the final, comic episode of Secrets of Women (1952), and he once again casts them Read More

Gycklarnas Afton

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg, Anders Ek, Gudrun Brost, Hakke Ekman, Annika Tretow

Synopsis: This rich, powerful Ingmar Bergman film charts the frustrations and humiliations of several circus performers. The circus's portly owner, Albert (Ake Gronberg), recalls a humiliating incident involving the company's clown, Frost (Anders Ek), who discovered his wife, Alma (Gudrun Brost), swimming Read More

Kvinnors Väntan

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Anita Björk, Gunnar Björnstrand, Birger Malmsten

Synopsis: In this multi-faceted Ingmar Bergman film, rich in dramatic and comic elements, three wives pass time in a summer house, awaiting the returns of their husbands, by entertaining each other with recollections of past marital traumas. In the first recollection, the sexually unfulfilled Rakel (Anita Bjork Read More

Sommaren med Monika

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, John Harryson, Georg Skarstedt, Åke Fridell

Synopsis: An innocent youth finds love and, eventually, heartbreak in this film, which ranks among Ingmar Bergman's simplest and most unaffected. Harry (Lars Ekborg), the unworldly, unhappy hero, suffers at his job and in his personal life. Then he falls in love with the superficial Monika (Harriet Andersson Read More

Sommarlek

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Alf Kjellin, Birger Malmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Georg Funkquist

Synopsis: In this melancholy romance, a not-so-young ballerina recalls an earlier, tragic love affair. The heroine, Marie (Maj-Britt Nilsson), spends a summer with her possessive Uncle Erland (Georg Funkquist), who lives with his cancerous wife on an island near Stockholm. While staying with her uncle, who Read More

Sånt Händer Inte Här

Crew: Director

Fängelse

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Doris Svedlund, Birger Malmsten, Eva Henning, Hasse Ekman, Carl-Henrik Fant, Stig Olin

Synopsis: Ingmar Bergman's sixth feature film, The Devil's Wanton offers in embryonic form many of the themes explored in Bergman's later work. Math teacher Anders Henrikson, recently released from a mental institution, decides to exorcise his inner demons in film form. Henrikson persuades film director Hasse Ekman Read More

Eva

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Birger Malmsten, Eva Dahlbeck, Stig Olin, Åke Claesson

Synopsis: Filmed in 1948, Swedish filmmaker Gustav Molander's Eva gained an American release the following year. The eponymous Eva, played by Eva Stiberg, is the cast-off girlfriend of headstrong railroad engineer Bo (Birger Malmsten). When Bo's new bride is killed in a train accident, he returns to Read More

Törst

Crew: Director

Actors: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth, Mimi Nelson

Synopsis: A couple's relationship begin to unravel during a rail trip through Europe in this drama, an early work from legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. Rut (Eva Henning) is a former ballet dancer whose career has bee