Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden in 1918. He wrote or directed more than 170 theatrical productions and sixty films, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Fanny and Alexander, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century. Bergman’s trilogy of­ books – The Best Intentions, Sunday’s Children, and Private Confessions – is based on the life of his parents, and details his own upbringing in early twentieth-century Sweden. Bergman died in 2007.