Ingmar Bergman died today

[chimx]

:(

I think I'll rewatch The Seventh Seal this week in tribute to him.

[chimx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyqg017aFrY

checkmate for bergman, no?

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Originally posted by [email protected] 30, 2007 11:21 pm
:(

I think I'll rewatch The Seventh Seal this week in tribute to him.
How original :rolleyes:

[JazzRemington]

I've been wanting to see some of his films for a while, but never got around.

Um, I like how they made fun of him in the 2nd Bill and Ted movie. :)

[CornetJoyce]

There was a wonderful parody of Bergman called "The Dove." It's done in ersatz Swedish with English subtitles. Unless you know Swedish, it takes a while to to get it.

Bergman's art is profound but he objected to Swedish social democracy so the thought of revolutionary socialism must have been truly horrific for him, no?

[JimFar]

I remember being shocked a few years back when I read Ingmar Bergman’s autobiography The Magic Lantern. Bergman pointed out that sympathy for Nazi Germany was widespread in the millieux in which he grew up. Some of his school teachers were openly sympathetic to the “new Germany.” One teacher used to spend his summers attending officers’ meetings in Bavaria. Bergman’s brother (who later on entered the diplomatic corps) was an organizer for the Swedish National Socialists. Ingmar himself at the age of 16 went to Germany as an exchange student. Since, he was a pastor’s son, he was paired with a German boy who was also a pastor’s son. This German pastor was an ardent Nazi who was as prone to use texts from Mein Kampf for his Sunday sermons as the Gospels. As an exchange student young Ingmar became an enthusiast for Hitler’s regime. Bergman reported that his infatuation with Nazism lasted until after the end of WW II when finally the evidence of what the Nazis did to the Jews and others had become so strong as to become undeniable. During the meantime Ingmar’s family became close to the German family that he had boarded with. His sister later became engaged to the same German student that Ingmar had been paired with. He later became a pilot in the Luftwaffe and was shot down and killed at the beginning of WW II.