Bergman Week programme finalised

The Bergman Center Foundation invites you to this year's Bergman Week with screenings in Bergman’s private cinema and Ariane Mnouchkine, Gösta Ekman, Anna Asp and Johan Kling among the guests.

As has been previously announced, playwright Jon Fosse will deliver the very first ”Bergman Lecture” during this edition of Bergman Week. Liv Ullmann is another guest, who will give a Masterclass and introduce a screening of Faithless, as well as the Swedish première of ...but Film is my Mistress, a documentary where she is the narrator and guide.

This Bergman Week also boasts film screenings in Bergman’s private cinema in Dämba where Lena, Ingmar and Daniel Bergman will introduce their selected films.

This year's Bergman Week will also be visited by French theatre icon Ariane Mnouchkine, whose film Molière was a Bergman favourite and will screen during the event. For almost fifty years, theatre troupe Théâtre du Soleil has resided in an old munitions factory complex on the outskirts of Paris and their innovative productions have influenced generations of European dramatists and thespians.

In his youth, Swedish actor of fame, Gösta Ekman, worked as Bergman’s assistant director for two years. An upcoming biography on his life has given him cause to reflect on this simultaneously rewarding and problematic relationship. We also show a gem produced for Swedish Television, the critically lauded and much appreciated A Madman’s Manifesto – which has nevertheless languished in the archives of Swedish Television since the airing of the TV series in 1976. Gösta Ekman’s and Bibi Andersson’s interpretations were deemed their best work ever, as August Strindberg and Siri von Essen respectively.

Set designer Anna Asp is as one of the skilled artisans that Bergman picked for his circle of co-workers. ”You just go ahead and build it – and we’ll shoot it!”, Bergman instructed her, secure in his conviction that she would find the right look and design, for films as different as After the Rehearsal and Fanny and Alexander. During this Bergman Week, she will give a lecture featuring stills and scenes from mainly Fanny and Alexander, the film that won her an Academy Award.

By his own count, director Johan Kling watched Smiles of a Summer Night some fifty times before writing the screenplay for his new film Trust Me. He thus follows Darling with a film that is both strongly influenced by, and a homage to, Bergman’s comedy. The story in Trust Me is, however, firmly grounded in the 21st century – the tale of a few women who manage a theatre and about the men in their midst. Acohol, cleptomania, sex and other timeless vices also play a vital role.

The guest list also includes actresses Lena Endre, Yvonne Lombard and Pia Johansson and professors Paisley Livingston, Leif Zern and Leif Furhammar.

The Bergman Week on Fårö takes place between June 29 and July 4 in cooperation with Göteborg International Film Festival.

For more information and the complete programme see www.bergmanveckan.se.
Here you will also be able to order tickets.
For further information and questions, please contact Kuba Rose: kuba@bergmanveckan.se. or call +46707483713



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