Bücher von Ingmar Bergman

“The finest filmmaker of my lifetime . . . Bergman was a born spinner of tales.” —Woody AllenIn this new paperback edition, Ingmar Bergman presents an intimate view of his own unique body of work in film. His career spanned forty years and produced more than fifty films, many of which are considered classics: The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Persona, Smiles of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, and Fanny and Alexander, to name but a few. When he began this book, Bergman had not seen most of his movies since he made them. Resorting to scripts and working notebooks, and especially to memory, he comments brilliantly and always cogently on his failures as well as his successes; on the themes that bind his work together; on his concerns, anxieties, and moments of happiness; on the relationship between his life and art.Readers are allowed a glimpse of the inner workings behind his well-known masterpieces: his anxiety and pain as he edited a 312 minute Fanny and Alexander for a three-hour feature film release; his attempt to reconcile the towering figures of his parents with Wild Strawberries. He relates his own starkly honest view of his great triumphs and quiet failures. More clearly than ever before, Images allows us to listen to his “voice of genius” (Woody Allen, New York Times Book Review).

»Was für ein Schriftsteller, dieser Regisseur!« Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClézioIngmar Bergmans Leben in Rückblenden und assoziativ montiert: Die grandiose Erzählung ist ein rückhaltloses Bekenntnis zu seinen großen Leidenschaften Theater, Film und Frauen. Radikal offen schildert er seine Kindheit im streng protestantischen Pfarrhaus und die prägenden Begegnungen mit Sexualität, Liebe und Tod, seine Krisen, Triumphe und Misserfolge und verliert dabei nie das Gefühl für Dramaturgie.Bergman ist Vorbild sowohl für Schriftsteller wie Karl Ove Knausgård als auch für Filmemacher wie Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier oder Wim Wenders.»The voice of genius!« Woody Allen