Bergman's retrospective will be held in St. Petersburg

From April 20 to April 29, the company "Foreigno" and the Consulate General of Sweden in St. Petersburg will present a large retrospective of Ingmara Bergman in the Aurora cinema.

According to the website of the company "Noveokino", the retrospective is dedicated to the centenary of the director's birthday. Six of his films will be presented by film critic Mikhail Trofimenkov and theater critic and candidate of art history Natalya Skorokhod:

● “Seventh Print” ( Det Sjunde Inseglet , Sweden, 1957)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Operator: Gunnar Fisher
Cast: Max von Syudov, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bibi Anderson

● "Strawberry Polyana" ( Smultrostället , Sweden, 1957)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Operator: Gunnar Fisher
Starring: Victor Semetron, Ingrid Tulin, Bibi Anderson

● "Person" ( Persona , Sweden, 1966)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Operator: Sven Nyukvist
Starring: Bibi Anderson, Liv Ulman

● "Autumn Sonata" ( Höstsonaten , Germany-Shvesty-Norwegia, 1978)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Operator: Sven Nyukvist
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ulman, Lena Nyuman

● Fanny and Alexander ( Fanny Och Alexander , Sweden-France-FRG. 1982)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Operator: Sven Nyukvist
Starring: Eva Frolling, beretil guva, Pernilla Alvin

● "Saraband" ( Saraband , Sweden-School-Norway, 2003)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast: Liv Ulman, Erland Jozefson, Berier Alstedt, Julia Dufvenius

The shows of three documentaries about Ingmar Bergman and his work are also planned:

● "Gunnar" ( Gunnar , Russia-Shvesty, 2014), dir. Daniil Nevsky; The film about the Swedish operator Gunnar Fisher, who shot 12 films with Ingmar Bergman;

● "Remembering Ingmara Bergman" ( Minnet AV Ingmar Bergman , Finland, 2018), dir. Yorn Donner; The film is mainly based on two television interviews with Bergman, which the Finnish writer and director Yorn Donner shot in 1975 and 1987;

● "Island of Bergman" ( Bergman Island , Sweden, 2006), dir. Marie Nyurere; In this film, the 88-year-old Bergman first represents its secluded and mysterious world of the island of the Forer in the Baltic Sea.

Schedule:

All films will be shown in the original with Russian subtitles.

The show program was compiled with the support of the Swedish Institute and the Swedish Film Institute