The legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman has just passed away. The news has saddened not only his beloved Swedish public, but the people from the whole world that have been aware of the filmmaker’s important contribution to the modern cinema. Ingmar Bergman has been considered one of the main masters of the modern cinema, along with other great filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Roberto Rossellini, Luis Bunuel, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Robert Bresson, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski and several other important directors of this 20^th century.

Ingmar Bergman has recently celebrated his 89^th birth day, as he was born on the 14^th of July 1918, in Sweden’s fourth largest city, Uppsala. Through the more than 50 film that Ingmar Bergman has created in his entire career, the directorial vision has focused on the extremes of Sweden, which the filmmaker has loved very much. Bergman has also approached man’s existential problems, examining through his film the man’s relationship to himself, to God and also the others.

Ingmar Bergman together with several other European filmmakers has introduced the innovative idea of the “total filmmaker”, which is both the writer and the director of an idea, transforming it into a masterpiece film. The Swedish legendary director has managed to use the modern medium of cinematography to express himself in a similar way to the artists’ once way of writing novels, musical masterpieces and so on.

Bergman’s works could have been compared to conglomerates of essential dense and profound thoughts and feelings.

The filmmaker has started his career in the 40s and has reached fame in the 50s and 60s. His latest works have been “Saraband” in 2003 and “Bergmanova Sonata” in 2005. Other important titles include the film trilogy “Through a Glass Darkly”, “Winter Light”, “The Silence” and others.

The legendary filmmaker has passed away at his home from Faro, Sweden, from a peaceful death. His funeral is to be attended by close friends and family. May he rest in peace!