Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (1962)

Original title

Ingmar Bergman gör en film

Directed by

Vilgot Sjöman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

2h 25m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that follows Ingmar Bergman as he makes the film Winter Light. It shows the process from writing the script to the film's release and how critics responded.

behind-the-scenesobservationalintimateinformativeslow-pacedcandidstructuralmeasured

What happens

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (Swedish: Ingmar Bergman gör en film) is a 1963 Swedish documentary film directed by Vilgot Sjöman which depicts the making of Ingmar Bergman's film Winter Light from screenwriting to the film's premiere and critical reaction. The film originally aired in five half-hour episodes on Swedish television. It has subsequently been included in a bonus disc of The Criterion Collection's box set of Bergman's "trilogy," Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light, and The Silence (1963). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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