![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: July 14, 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden Death: July 30, 2007 in Faro, Sweden Biography:The most famed and honored filmmaker ever to emerge from the nation of Sweden -- and regarded by many as one of the three or four most brilliant directors of the 20th century -- "Ingmar Bergman" radically altered the nature and meaning of the motion-picture form, transfiguring a medium long devoted to spectacle into an art capable of profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul. By focusing on the exploration of self with unparalleled intensity, Bergman brought to the screen a new sense of emotional intimacy, fusing the concepts behind Freudian psychotherapy with a dreamlike sensibility founded on visual metaphors, flashbacks, and extreme close-ups to create a revelatory cinematic world unlike any before it.
Born Ernst Ingmar Bergman on July 14, 1918, in Uppsala, Sweden, he followed a brief 1938 military stay by attending Stockholm University. While... Full Biography
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