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Film master Ingmar Bergman dies at 89

The master filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman, died at the age of 89 at his home on the island of Faro, off the Baltic coast of Sweden, according to the Ingmar Bergman Foundation Tuesday.

Ingmar Bergman in a 1981 file photo.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)Bergman was widely considered one of the greatest directors in motion picture history. For much of the second half of the 20th century, he stood with directors like Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa at the pinnacle of serious filmmaking. His death declared the world has lost the last filmmaker willing or capable of explicitly taking on the big themes: the nature of God and the nature of humanity. In his life, Bergman moved from the comic romp of lovers in “Smiles of a Summer Night” in 1955 to the Crusader’s death-haunted search for God in “The Seventh Seal” in 1957; from the harrowing portrayal of fatal illness in “Cries and Whispers” in 1972 to the alternately humorous and horrifying depiction of family life a decade later in “Fanny and Alexander.” With more than 50 feature films to his credit, together with more than 100 theatrical productions, he has become synonymous with "serious" filmmaking, and his works have inspired many filmmakers, among them Woody Allen, whose reverence for Bergman can be found in many of his own works, both comic and serious. Religion and reflections on ethical and philosophical issues were his subject matter. His films, which reverberate with philosophical and psychological themes, became the most revered of the century. Three of Bergman's works won Oscars for best foreign-language film, and he was personally nominated nine times. In 1971, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him its Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Bergman was married five times and fathered nine children, including a daughter Linn Ullmann, whose mother was Liv Ullmann, his partner in a five-year affair. VietNamNet/Xinhuanet

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