Ingmar Bergman is the greatest director of our time, who created the genre of auteur cinema. In his arsenal not only mastery of the profession of filmmaker, but also the mighty talent of screenwriter and writer. On account of the Swedish master dozens of films and more than one hundred and fifty plays and scripts.
"The Great Swede" Ingmar Bergman
Bergman was born on July 14, 1918 in the family of a Lutheran pastor. Father's conservative religious views, physical punishment in the family - all this will later find echoes in the director's work. When Ingmar was nine years old, he tried to create his own cartoons with the help of the then popular "magic lantern". It was then that his love for cinema and theater was born.
In 1937, Bergman entered Stockholm University, where he plans to study art history. But the hobby for youth theater pushes studies into the background. A little later, a scandal with his father ensues and Ingmar leaves her father's house, breaks with her studies and goes on a tour with a theater troupe as a prop. However, the staging of the play "Father" becomes a failure and the young man has to get a job as an assistant director at the Opera House. At the same time, Bergman wrote several plays, not at all hoping for their staging. In the early 1940s, one of the plays was staged at the Student Theater and received good reviews from critics and the press. Berman is lucky - the production and the young playwright are noticed by the heads of the leading Swedish film company. Bergman receives an invitation to work in the script department, where he not only edits other people's scripts, but also writes his own.
Personal life
In 1943, Bergman marries Elsa Fischer, and they have a daughter, Lena. A little later, another piece of news is added to this good news - the shooting of the film "Bullying" according to Bergman's script begins. The film succeeds and is well received by the public not only in Scandinavian countries, but also in America and Great Britain.
The marriage with Elsa does not last long. Already in April 1945, Bergman divorced her and married Ellen Lundström. Later, the first daughter Lena has half-brothers and sisters - Eva, Jan, Anna and Mats. Now Bergman is not only an assistant director. He is a director himself and makes several films, among which the most significant is Prison. Pessimists and rebels are the main characters in the director's work in this period. In the early 1950s, Bergman married the journalist Gun Hagberg for the third time, and they had a son. In 1952, Bergman parted ways with Hagberg and moved to Malmö, where he lives with the young actress Harriet Andersson. At this time, he combines the work of a director with the work of head of productions in the city theater.
Creativity and recognition
In 1957, the director creates his most famous film "The Seventh Seal", which won a special prize in Cannes and put its creator on a par with famous contemporary directors. A year later, Bergman marries pianist Kabi Laretei, they have a son, Daniel. In less than ten years, until the sixty-seventh year, Bergman directed several films, of which Strawberry Glade and the dark trilogy about "divine silence" stand out.
In the late 60s, the director marries the Norwegian actress Liv Ullman, they have a daughter, Lynn. For a quiet family life, Bergman builds a large house on the island of Forø, located in the Baltic Sea. However, this marriage also turns out to be short-lived, and in the fall of 1971, Bergman joins the knot with Ingrid van Rosen, finally finding peace in his personal life. Until the death of his wife in 1995, Bergman made films, stage plays, wrote scripts and autobiographies. After the death of his wife, Bergman retires in a house on the island of Foreo, and two years later he removes his last film, In the Presence of a Clown. Ingar Bergman died on July 30, 2007, leaving behind a huge creative legacy.
