Bergman, Ingmar 1918-2007

The magic lantern : an autobiography by Ingmar Bergman ( Book )
173 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in 29 languages and held by 1,950 libraries worldwide
Describes the career and achievements of the famous motion picture director.

Four screenplays by Ingmar Bergman ( Book )
51 editions published between 1960 and 2002 in 5 languages and held by 1,818 libraries worldwide

The Seventh seal ( Visual )
101 editions published between 1956 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 1,371 libraries worldwide
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.

The seventh seal ( Visual )
9 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in Swedish and held by 1,279 libraries worldwide
"After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess" -- Container.

Images : my life in film by Ingmar Bergman ( Book )
61 editions published between 1990 and 2011 in 16 languages and held by 1,220 libraries worldwide
"Ingmar Bergman is an acknowledged giant of film and one of the great creative artists of this century. His career as a movie director, screenwriter, and producer spanned more than forty years, during which he made such masterpieces as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Smiles of a Summer Night, Persona, Hour of the Wolf, Shame, Cries and Whispers, and Fanny and Alexander. After his retirement from film-making following Fanny and Alexander, he went on to write his autobiography, The Magic Lantern, which became a best-seller worldwide and was hailed as "surely one of the finest self-portraits of an artist in our time" (Time). Now, in Images, Ingmar Bergman turns the magic lantern of memory from himself to his films." "To write this book, Bergman rescreened all of his films, many of which he had not seen since their release. His friend, the movie critic and publisher Lasse Bergstrom, also viewed and discussed them, helping to jog his memory and to expose his psychological blind spots about his work. Bergman relied, too, on annotated scripts, newspapers, and the recollections of others, but especially on his own workbooks and diaries, from which he is here publishing extracts for the first time.".

Wild strawberries Smultronstället ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1980 and 2008 in Swedish and held by 1,178 libraries worldwide
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.

Persona ( Visual )
89 editions published between 1966 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 1,141 libraries worldwide
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic muteness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.

Bergman on Bergman by Ingmar Bergman ( Book )
40 editions published between 1970 and 1993 in 6 languages and held by 1,141 libraries worldwide

Scenes from a marriage by Ingmar Bergman ( Book )
60 editions published between 1972 and 2007 in 17 languages and held by 1,128 libraries worldwide
Screenplay translated from Swedish into English based on the mini-series about a conventional couple with a seemingly perfect marriage who slip into divorce and an ever more complicated relationship.

A little night music : a new musical by Stephen Sondheim ( )
22 editions published between 1972 and 2010 in English and held by 1,069 libraries worldwide
Typescript, dated Dec. 13, 2009.