Ingmar Bergman (Uppsala, 1918 - Faro, Gotland, 2007). Filmmaker, scriptwriter and Swedish writer. Considered one of the key filmmakers of the second half of the twentieth century, it is for many one of the most eminent personalities of world cinema.
In his work is evident the influence of two playwrights Henrik Ibsen and, especially, August Strindberg, who introduced him to a world where the big issues that attract both laden with a dramatic, exhausting and hopeless atmosphere demonstrators. Among the many awards he received, we should point the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival in 1958 by Wild Strawberries, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1961, 1962 and 1983 by The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, and Fanny and Alexander, respectively; Gold Plaque of the Swedish Academy in 1958; the Erasmus prize in Holland in 1965, and in 1975 an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Stockholm.