FILM DIRECTOR

Ingmar Bergman

1918 - 2007

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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul". Among his most acclaimed works are The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which were included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound's Greatest Films of All Time. He was also ranked No. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ingmar Bergman is the 7th most popular film director (down from 3rd in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Film Director.

Ingmar Bergman is most famous for his film work, which includes Persona, The Seventh Seal, and Wild Strawberries.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Ingmar Bergman ranks 7 out of 2,041. Before him are Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, David Lynch, and Federico Fellini. After him are Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, D. W. Griffith, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ingmar Bergman ranks 3. Before him are Nelson Mandela, and Nicolae Ceaușescu. After him are Gamal Abdel Nasser, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anwar Sadat, Richard Feynman, Kurt Waldheim, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Rita Hayworth, and Gertrude B. Elion. Among people deceased in 2007, Ingmar Bergman ranks 3. Before him are Boris Yeltsin, and Luciano Pavarotti. After him are Kurt Vonnegut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Carlo Ponti.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ingmar Bergman ranks 10 out of 1,879. Before him are Astrid Lindgren (1907), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594), Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Tycho Brahe (1546), and Anders Celsius (1701). After him are Svante Arrhenius (1859), Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882), August Strindberg (1849), Olof Palme (1927), Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779), and Oscar II of Sweden (1829).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Sweden

Among film directors born in Sweden, Ingmar Bergman ranks 1. After him are Lasse Hallström (1946), Victor Sjöström (1879), Roy Andersson (1943), Sven Nykvist (1922), Bo Widerberg (1930), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Jan Troell (1931), Vilgot Sjöman (1924), Olle Hellbom (1925), Johan Renck (1966), and Ruben Östlund (1974).

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