Ingmar Bergman

1918 – 2007

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Ingmar Bergman’s name is one of those names that will always have a special meaning in the lives of those who have encountered some of his extensive work. Most can recall the first film or play in which they were for the first, but seldom for the last time, mesmerised by a writer and director, whom over an almost sixty year long career, managed touch his viewer as strongly intellectually as emotionally.

Perhaps the way Bergman uses the concept of recognition, often repeating faces, story-lines and locations thus fuelling the idea of a Bergman world that in ways can be described as autonomic, is a part of the undoubted attraction.

Perhaps it’s the thoroughness of the work, where even manuscripts in themselves have been accredited as highly interesting from a strict literary sense.
Perhaps it’s the relationship that Bergman had with the actor, far to often to disregard as idiosyncratic, proclaiming a growth as much as professionals as individuals that contributes to the magnetism that is internationally recognised  as possessed by Bergmans work.

Either way, the work of Ingmar Bergman, Sweden’s most famous film director and overall one of the world’s most important filmmakers and directors, rests solely and securely in the hearts and minds of such a large audience that it is forever guaranteed eternal life.

As much as a tribute as a forum for reflection and debate, The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, is currently hosting the “Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival 2009″ in Stockholm Sweden which Filippa K has decided to be a partner of. The partnership tends and sees to the importance of exploring the different aspects o Bergmans portfolio of work, thus ensuring that a rolling stone gathers no moss.