Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman
Bergman in 1966
Born	Ernst Ingmar Bergman (1918-07-14)14 July 1918 Uppsala, Sweden
Died	30 July 2007(2007-07-30) (aged 89) Fårö, Sweden
Other names	Buntel Eriksson
Occupations	Director screenwriter
Years active	1944 – 2005
Spouses	Else Fischer (1943–1945) Ellen Lundström (1945-1950) Gun Grut (1951–1959) Käbi Laretei (1959–1969) Ingrid von Rosen (1971–1995)
Children	Lena Bergman Eva Bergman Jan Bergman Mats Bergman Anna Bergman Ingmar Bergman Jr. Maria von Rosen Daniel Bergman Linn Ullmann
Awards	Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1971 Lifetime Achievement César Award for Best Foreign Film 1984 Fanny och Alexander
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (help·info) (IPA: ['ɪŋmar 'bærjman] in Swedish, but usually IPA: [ˈbɝgmən] in English) (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007)^[1] was a Swedish stage and movie director. Ingmar Bergman found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his indelible explorations of the human condition. He is regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema.^[2]

Many filmmakers worldwide, including Americans Woody Allen^[3] and Robert Altman,^[4] the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky^[5] and the Taiwanese director Ang Lee,^[6] have cited the work of Bergman as a major influence on their work.

1. ↑ Ingmar Bergman on IMDb
2. ↑ "Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89". New York Times. 30 July 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-21. Ingmar Bergman, the "poet with the camera" who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died today on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. Bergman was 89.
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