Ingrid Bergman : in her own words / Pretty Pictures ; Mantaray Film presents ; a film by Stig Björkman ; producer, Stina Gardell ; script, Stig Björkman, Stina Gardell, Domenika Daubenbüchel ; directed by Stig Björkman.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Narrator, Alicia Vikander ; participants, Pia Lindström, Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, Fiorella Mariani, Liv Ullmann, Sigourney Weaver, Jeanine Basinger. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015. Widescreen (1.78:1). Special features: New interview with director Stig Björkman; Super 8 home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s; Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman's daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone; Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullman and Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings; Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role; Outtakes from Bergman's 1936 film "On the sunny side"; Music video for Eva Dahlgren's song "The movie about us", which is included on the film's soundtrack; Trailer; Plus: an essay by fil scholar Jeanine Basinger.
Summary:
Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials; letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an undiminished legend.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.