18 April, 2011 09:34

Guests at the Bergman Week 2011

Johan Cullberg, Inga Landgré, Lisa Langseth, Henning Mankell and Sara Stridsberg are among this year’s Swedish guests at the Bergman Week. The full programme will be presented on April 27. Ticket sales start the same day.

In Ingmar Bergman’s personal library, psychiatrist and writer Johan Cullberg found his own books ”Psychoses” and ”Dynamic Psychiatry”, both filled with notes of a highly personal nature. From these notes, and with the help of film clips, Cullberg reflects on the role of insanity in Bergman’s films.

Inga Landgré is the actress who played the lead role in Ingmar Bergman’s debut feature Crisis and also had a part in his penultimate film In the Presence of a Clown fifty years later. Meet her in a conversation about her long life in theatre and films.

Last autumn Lisa Langseth had great success with her directorial debut Pure. At the Bergman Week she participates in a talk about how to make a film and find alter-native means of production and distribution if you are not part of the establishment.

Next year Swedish Television will begin shooting the highly anticipated TV series about the life of Ingmar Bergman. The author Henning Mankell talks about the pitfalls and challenges during the course of the work. How do you portray a person who was constantly rewriting his own biography?

In Sara Stridsberg’s writings, young women travel through internal and external landscapes, often trying to escape conventions and demands, consistently individualistic and vulnerable. She will speak about strong, crazy and exposed female characters longing for freedom – in her own work and Ingmar Bergman’s.

The role of the landscape in Ingmar Bergman’s films is explored in both a lecture by professor Birgitta Steene and in an exhibit produced in collaboration with the Fårö Local Heritage Association.

The theme Family Snapshots consists of photos from Bergman’s own family albums – idyllic holiday scenes that contrast sharply with his own tales of a gloomy childhood. We have also assembled a section of rarely seen films with a family theme – including an interview with Selim Karlebo, Ingmar Bergman’s last father-in-law.

Welcome to the Bergman Week!
Jannike Åhlund, Paola Ciliberto, Elisabet Edlund, Monica Kahlström, Kerstin Kalström, David Kollnert, Isak Mozard and Kuba Rose

The Bergman Week is arranged in collaboration with The Bergman Estate, Gotland Film Commission, Göteborg International Film Festival and The Gotland University. The Bergman Week is financed with support from the Municipality of Gotland, Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, The Swedish Film Institute and The Swedish Institute.