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Bergman Island (2006)
Brief Synopsis
A look at the life of the famous director, including behind-the-scenes material from Bergman's private archive.
Ingmar Bergman is one of the world's most important and influential filmmakers. With such titles as "Smiles of a Summer's Night," "The Seventh Seal," "Wild Strawberries" and "Fanny and Alexander," he has won respect and admiration. He is eighty-eight years old, having spent more than sixty of those years directing. Now, for the first time, he shows us his world on the desolate and mysterious Baltic island of Fårö. Viewers get to step through the blue gate that bears the notice--in Swedish, of course--"Private Area. Beware of Dog". No dog has lived there, though, since Liv Ullmann's dachshund left the place over thirty years ago. But that text says that here lives a man who wants to be left alone. A man whose only company is the sea and his own demons. Four of his films have received Oscars. One of them is "Through a Glass Darkly," although, to Bergman, that film is important for a completely different reason. He was looking for a barren, stony island, and someone suggested Fårö. Bergman shot five more films on Fårö, but more important, he found a place to rest and a home. In his home at the seashore, he talks about the childhood that shaped him. He speaks of how he used his own life in the cinema, and how the art of film was often a comfort to him. He tells, too, of love and death--and lists his worst demons!