Ingmar Bergman

by Robert Emmet Long

Generations of filmmakers and film audiences have been inspired by the work of Ingmar Bergman, which has left indelible impressions on practically everyone everywhere who takes seriously the art of moviemaking. Robert Emmet Long's Ingmar Bergman: Film and Stage is the first fully illustrated account of each of Bergman's films, from his earliest work in the 1940s to the films of the 1950s that established him as Europe's most important and innovative director, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and The Magician. By the 1960s hardly a year would pass without a new Bergman movie, among the most memorable: The Virgin Spring, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, and his recent Sunday's Children. While his film work is widely known, less well known - though hardly less appreciated - is his work for the stage: his productions of classics such as Hamlet, King Lear, A Doll's House, Peer Gynt, Miss Julie, and