The Passion of Ingmar Bergman

Abstract

Acknowledged as one of greatest filmmakers of this or any other time, Bergman has with few exceptions written his own screenplays—an uncommon practice in film industry—and for this practice critics refer to him as a filmmaker: In this work, Gado examines virtually entire range of Bergman's literary output. While treating matter of visual presentation of Bergman's films, Gado concentrates on story and narrative and their relationship to Bergman's personal history. Gado concludes that whatever outward appearance of Bergman's works, they contain an elementary psychic fantasy that links them all, revealing an artist who hoped to be a dramatist, the new Strindberg, and who saw camera as an extension of his pen.

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