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.