Underplayed Gems

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie (1962)

Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie poster
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
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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.

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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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