One of the great directors of the 20th Century.

Ingmar Bergman, Famed Director, Dies at 89


By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN
Published: July 30, 2007
Ingmar Bergman, the “poet with the camera” who is considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history, died today on the small island of Faro where he lived on the Baltic coast of Sweden, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said. Bergman was 89.
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Ingmar Bergman with Liv Ulmann in Stockholm in the 1960s during a theater rehearsal.

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Ingmar Bergman in the 1960s.



Critics called Mr. Bergman one of the directors — the others being Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa — who dominated the world of serious film making in the second half of the 20th century.

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