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Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Out of the Past 2018 / Searching for Ingmar Bergman / Germany, France 2018

This year he would have turned 100. Commemorate the anniversary of one of the most important filmmakers of all time with a documentary by a German director, who investigates Bergman and his artistic legacy, his closest cooperators, and the contemporary artists whom he significantly influenced.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Synopsis

In 1960 Margarethe von Trotta discovered a love for film at a screening of Bergman’s The Seventh Seal. So it’s no wonder that her documentary about the Swedish director begins on the same beach where Max von Sydow played a game of chess with Death. But she is not the only one to speak about Bergman; she offers a say to other artists whom he inspired: actor and director Liv Ullmann, legendary Spanish director Carlos Saura, screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, French director Olivier Assayas (who co-authored a book about Bergman, published in France in 1990), and Bergman’s compatriot Ruben Östlund, who shares the filmmaker’s taste for unfolding precisely-honed personal dramas.

Nikola Paggio

About the film

95 min / Color, Black & White, DCP

Director Margarethe von Trotta / Screenplay Margarethe von Trotta, Felix Moeller / Dir. of Photography Börres Weiffenbach / Editor Bettina Böhler / Producer Konstanze Speidel, Benjamin Seikel / Production C-Films / Coproduction Mondex et Cie / Sales Cinema Management Group

About the director

Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942, Berlin, Germany). Selected filmography: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann, 1975), Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks, 1979), Rosa Luxemburg (1986), Three Sisters (Paura e amore, 1988), The Long Silence (Il lungo silencio, 1993), The Promise (Das Versprechen, 1995), Rosenstrasse (2003), I Am the Other Woman (Ich bin die Andere, 2006), Hannah Arendt (2012), Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)

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Cinema Management Group
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Phone: + 1 310 300 9959
E-mail: [email protected]

Guests

Felix Moeller
Film Director

Konstanze Speidel
Producer

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