Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Born in 1918 to a stern Lutheran pastor, Bergman entered the world of films in 1943, directing 62 of them, mostly from his own screenplays, across the following six decades, with his work forming a prolonged existential examination of faith and its loss, mortality, loneliness, human frailty and desire.

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Born in 1918 to a stern Lutheran pastor, Bergman entered the world of films in 1943, directing 62 of them, mostly from his own screenplays, across the following six decades, with his work forming a prolonged existential examination of faith and its loss, mortality, loneliness, human frailty and desire.

Whether the films are familiar – as with The Seventh Seal, his allegory set in a medieval world of plague and sin, or deserving of rediscovery, such as Summer Interlude or Summer with Monika – about an idyllic summer in the Stockholm archipelago, they feature scenes and images as enduring as any in cinema.

Similarly, the faces of his ‘repertory’ cast – Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, and Gunnar Björnstrand – are etched into our minds through their performances in such films as the enigmatic Persona, the colour-saturated Cries and Whispers or the unforgettable Scenes from a Marriage. < show less