New Delhi: Academy Award-winning Swedish film director and dramatist Ingmar Bergman, died on Monday. He was 89.
Bergman died at his home on the isle of Faaroe, off Sweden's east coast, the Swedish Film Institute said in a statement.
In his lifetime, he directed more than 50 movies, wrote scripts for another dozen, and was responsible for 168 works for the stage, television and radio.
The Swedish film director whose depiction of anguished human relationships made him an icon of the art-house cinema and inspired followers including Woody Allen spent his final years in seclusion on the windswept Baltic island of Faaroe.
During a career spanning eight decades, Bergman developed a body of work known for austere drama with recurring themes such as art, faith and the meaning of life.
Bergman made his last film Saraband in 2003. It was greeted in a review by Time magazine as “the last roar from a legend”.
Three of Bergman's movies received Oscars for best foreign language film: The Virgin Spring (1960), about a 14th-century Swede who avenges the rape and death of his daughter; Through a Glass Darkly (1961), about a crumbling modern family; and his final film, Fanny and Alexander (1982), a story of terrifying adolescence.
(With agency inputs)
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