The genius Ingmar Bergman

Almost a century ago, Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of his generation, whose work continues to impress, is born on 14 July. Born in 1918 in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, he is son of Lutheran pastor and has shot nearly 60 films between 1946 and 2003, including "Whispers and Shouts" , "Scenes from a Family Life", Autumn Sonata and "Fanny and Alexander". He has also directed more than 170 theatrical productions. Among the actors he often works with are Liv Ulman, Bibi Anderson, Max von Suzov, Erland Youssefson. Bergmann has been active for more than six decades. In 1976 his career was seriously threatened as a result of accusations and investigations into tax evasion. Although the prosecution has ceased due to lack of evidence, angry, Bergman stops all ongoing projects, closes studios, and goes to self-imposed exile in Germany for eight years. He lives for a while in Munich, where he makes the Snake Egg movie and plays plays at the local Theater. In 1982, Bergman temporarily returned to his homeland to direct Fannie and Alexander.

He announces that it is his latest film and that he intends to focus on the theater. His last theatrical performance was Henry Ibsen's "Wild Duck" at the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm in 2002. During this period, Bergman wrote and directed several television productions, some of which were subsequently shown in cinemas as well. The last one is "Sarabanda" (2003), a sequel to "Scenes from a Family Life", which ends at the age of 84. The director married five times. Besides his marriages, Bergman has long love relationships with actresses Harriet Andersson, Bibi Anderson and Liv Ulman, who has a daughter - writer Lynn Ullmann. There are nine children, one of whom survives. Eleven years after he died at the age of 89 at his home on the island of Forio in the Baltic Sea, serving as a decor for his film "Persona," Bergman remains for many of the best performers, illusions, madness and infamous director. Written with compelling sensitivity, "Laterna Magika" follows Bergmann's life from childhood in the Swedish province, through his work in theater, to cinema triumphs, as well as his stormy romantic stories with five wives and several lovers.

The director remembers his experiences and stories through a series of profound personal retrospections documenting some of the most important moments in 20th century cinema history as well as the personal obsessions of the creator involved in them. From Crisza to her latest film "Sarabanda," Bergman, who loved women and cinema and hated death, presented a metaphysics of the strained human relationships in which the Lord was as powerful and absent, leaving only the painfully sensitive conscience between whisper and cries. In other words, Woodman Allen, "in all his quirks, religious and philosophical obsessions, Bergman is a born story narrator who's fun even when he's been thinking of dramatizing the ideas of Nietzsche or Kierkegaard.".

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