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Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter, born in Uppsala on the 14th of July 1918 and died on the 30th of July 2007. He is considered one of the greatest and most important filmmakers in the history of cinema and a prominent figure of both European film and Swedish cinema.
Ingmar Bergman's most acclaimed works include The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, both from 1957, Persona from 1966, and Fanny and Alexander from 1982. Other notable films include Smiles of a Summer Night, The Virgin Spring, Cries and Whispers, and Scenes from a Marriage.
Ingmar Bergman was arrested on the 30th of January 1976 on charges of income tax evasion while rehearsing at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. The investigation centered on an alleged 1970 transaction of 500,000 Swedish kronor between his company Cinematograf and its Swiss subsidiary Persona. The charges were dropped on the 23rd of March 1976 because the alleged crime had no legal basis.
After his 1976 tax evasion arrest, Ingmar Bergman suffered a nervous breakdown and vowed never to work in Sweden again. He closed his studio on the island of Faro and went into self-imposed exile in Munich, West Germany, where he became director of the Residenz Theatre from 1977 to 1984.
Ingmar Bergman repeatedly cast a company of actors including Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Gunnar Bjornstrand, and Liv Ullmann. His best-known cinematographers were Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist.
Ingmar Bergman died in his sleep at age 89, and his body was found at his home on the island of Faro on the 30th of July 2007. It was the same day the existentialist director Michelangelo Antonioni died, and Bergman's interment was private at the Faro Church on the 18th of August 2007.