Bergman's 100th Birthday – July 14th
Free entrance to the Bergman – Truth and Lies exhibition at the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, Bergman tours at the Royal Dramatic Theatre and Stockholm city tours following in the director’s footsteps. All this and more scheduled for Saturday July 14th, the day Ingmar Bergman would have celebrated his 100th birthday.
The Year of Bergman is being celebrated across the globe, with July 14th – the 100th anniversary of Bergman’s birth – featuring many special events and offerings. The Ingmar Bergman Foundation and the Swedish Film Institute are planning Bergman film screenings at cinemas across Sweden on July 14th. Meanwhile in Stockholm, the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the Swedish Museum of Performing Arts, SF Cinemas and the Stockholm City Museum are working alongside the Ingmar Bergman Foundation to celebrate what would have been Bergman’s 100th birthday. The Royal Dramatic Theatre offers Stockholmers and visiting Bergman enthusiasts alike an exclusive birthday tour, trailing in the footsteps of the great director, with guides offering both Swedish and English. The Swedish Museum of Performing Arts opens its doors to all, with free entrance throughout the day and the special Bergman – Truth and Lies exhibition, while the Stockholm City Museum arranges a city tour entitled Ingmar Bergman’s Stockholm.
Swedish Museum of Performing Arts
Bergman – Truth and Lies presents a chronological tour through the decades and themes of Bergman’s 60-odd years of creative output, both in the theatrical and film worlds. Visitors are offered the chance to peer behind the scenes, catching a glimpse of unique material, including video footage, photographs, interviews, costumes and manuscripts. Set and costume designer Anna Bergman – who worked with Ingmar Bergman during his final years at the Royal Dramatic Theatre – curates the exhibition.
For more information on this and other exhibitions, click here.
Hours 11am–5pm. Free entrance.
Royal Dramatic Theatre – Bergman tours
Ingmar Bergman spent many years at and with the Royal Dramatic Theatre, both as a director and the head of the entire theatre. This guided tour leads visitors to the places where many Bergman stories first took place, revisiting everything from the site of severely misparked cars to forgotten chocolate biscuits. The tour, which lasts around one hour, starts off in the entrance hall and proceeds through the theatre’s winding corridors, stairways and back passageways – behind the scenes in places the public is rarely allowed. Free entrance – tickets required.
Times:
1.00 pm Bergman tour in Swedish
2.15 pm Bergman tour in English
3.30 pm Bergman tour in Swedish
4.45 pm Bergman tour in English
Stockholm City Museum: City Tours – Ingmar Bergman’s Stockholm
A city tour across the urban settings which impacted Sweden’s most internationally acclaimed film and theatre director, taking in the posh district of Östermalm and tourist-friendly Old Town (Gamla Stan). Guide: film expert and author Mikaela Kindblom.
Saturday 14 July, 1–2.30pm. Tickets: SEK120, which includes a copy of the newly published Bergman in Stockholm map. The tour is in Swedish.
More information and bookings here.
Additional events on 14 July:
Bergman Center
The annual Bergman Week recently came to a close at the Bergman Center on Fårö, and major celebrations are planned for the 14th of July – an entire day filled with marathon screenings of Bergman's films, lectures, concerts and a quiz.
Swedish Television
SVT commemorates Ingmar Bergman throughout 2018 with films and documentaries. A special program – Ingmar Bergman 100 Years – will be shown on Bergman's actual birthday at 8 pm, followed by Smiles of a Summer Night at 9 pm.
Swedish Radio
SR celebrates the Year of Bergman with the Bergman Pod and Laterna Magica, while Katinka Faragó is the guest speaker on 14 July on summer radio show Sommar i P1.
Finnish Broadcasting Company
Yle dedicates the entire weekend, 14–15 July, to Ingmar Bergman. On the day of Bergman's centenary, Wild Strawberries will be screened at 8 pm and Smiles of a Summer Night at 9.30 pm.
Dancing with Bergman in Monaco
New dance performance Dancing with Bergman – choreographed by Mats Ek, Alexander Ekman and Johan Inger – is on tour throughout the year, and is playing at Salle Garnier Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 14 July.
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
A large-scale retrospective of Ingmar Bergman's films are being screened at the National Gallery of Art, while 14 July will be celebrated with a screening of Ship to India.
Expressen
Swedish evening newspaper Expressen publishes The Snakeskin, Bergman's most renowned essay, in which he expresses his doubts of art in general and cinema in particular. This essay was first published in 1965 in Expressen.
Stureplan Public Square
At Stureplan in Stockholm, a screen covering the front of a building will feature a specially produced trailer for Ingmar Bergman and the 2018 Year of Bergman, shown on and off throughout the course of the day.
Zita Cinema
Zita in Stockholm is screening Bergman films throughout the month of July, under the theme Summer with Bergman. On the anniversary of Bergman's birth, The Seventh Screen will be shown, with free entrance.
Additional Swedish cinemas celebrating 14 July:
Spegeln Malmö: The Seventh Seal
Kino in Lund: The Seventh Seal, Persona and Smiles of a Summer Night
Karlstad: All These Women
Linköping: Smiles of a Summer Night
Båstad Scala Cinema: The Seventh Seal, All These Women and Hour of the Wolf
Folkets Cinema Umeå: Crisis
Saga Cinema in Oskarshamn: Wild Strawberries, Summer with Monika and Autumn Sonata
Kulturhuset in Svalöv: Summer with Monica
Select global screenings on 14 July:
Metropolis Kino, Kinemathek Hamburg, German: Thirst
Cinemateket, Copenhagen, Denmark: Smiles of a Summer Night
Urania National Film Theatre, Budapest, Hungary: Smiles of a Summer Night
Broadway Cinematheque, Hong Kong: The Seventh Seal
Showroom, Sheffield, England: Wild Strawberries
Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain: Wild Strawberries
Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Smiles of a Summer Night
Kijkhuis, Leiden, Netherlands: Summer with Monika and Wild Strawberries
Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany: Wild Strawberries, The Silence and Cries and Whispers
Catédra Ingmar Bergman, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico: Autumn Sonata
Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, Hong Kong: Scenes from a Marriage
Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands: Fanny and Alexander
Northwest Film Center, Portland, Oregon, USA: Smiles of a Summer Night
Woodstock, New York, USA: Persona
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA: The Seventh Seal
Landmark Ken, San Diego, California, USA: Persona
AFI Silver Theatre, Washington, DC, USA: The Seventh Seal