Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018) on Netflix
NR20181h 57mBiographyDocumentary
In 1957 Ingmar Bergman brings out two celebrated features, stages four plays and makes a television film. His private life is complicated. Interviews and archive footage revisit that year.
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The documentary centers on a single year in the working life of the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. During 1957 he completed two features, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, both of which became among his best known works, plus a production made for television, Mr. Sleeman Is Coming. In the same months he also staged four plays for the theater: The Misanthrope, Counterfeiters, The Prisoner and Peer Gynt. Alongside that output ran a private life that the film describes as complicated. The material includes archival records and contemporary conversations, together with excerpts from his large body of work. It had its premiere at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
