All All. Sign In. Top Film Directors. Only feature film directors and only those that I've seen at least 2 movies directed by. The order, especially in the beginning, is not random. List activity. Ingmar Bergman. Writer Director Actor Wild Strawberries Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born July 14, , the son of a priest. The film and T. The film Sunday's Children depicts a bicycle journey with his father. In the miniseries Private Confessions is the trilogy closed. Note that all three movies are not always full true biographical stories.
He began his career early with a puppet theatre which he, his sister and their friends played with. But he was the manager. Strictly professional he begun writing in It became his entrance into the movie business as Stina Bergman not a close relative , from the company S.
Swedish Filmindustry , had seen the play and thought that there must be some dramatic talent in young Ingmar. His first job was to save other more famous writers' poor scripts. Under one of that script-saving works he remembered that he had written a novel about his last year as a student. He took the novel, did the save-poor-script job first, then wrote a screenplay on his own novel.
When he went back to S. It was also in that movie Bergman did his first professional film-director job. Ingmar Bergman was also C. In he had a famous tax problem. Bergman had trusted other people to advise him on his finances, but it turned out to be very bad advice. Bergman had to leave the country immediately, and so he went to Germany. A few years later he returned to Sweden and made his last theatrical film Fanny and Alexander In later life he retired from movie directing, but still wrote scripts for film and T.
He died peacefully in his sleep on July 30, Federico Fellini. The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina the devil herself said the priests who ran his school - and the Gambettola farmhouse of his paternal grandmother would be remembered in several films.
