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	Essential Bergman Collection (4 DVD) One of films' most influential and respected directors, Ingmar Bergman has written at least 65 films, plays and television dramas, directing 62. Among his most famous works are the four contained within this collection - The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona and Autumn Sonata. Involved in the careers of some of cinemas' most important actors, including Max von Sydow (The Exorcist, Minority Report) and Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca), his work can be linked to many of today's mainstream, commercial directors, including Wes Craven and Woody Allen. Presented here together for the first time with notes written by renowned film critics this boxset represents the very best of Ingmar Bergman. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3631 Released: 2005 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal 4 DVDs Price: £44.25


	Persona DVD Widely recognised as Bergman's most extraordinary and influential film, Persona is a rich and poetic study of womanhood and identity, featuring two of the Swedish master's greatest leading ladies, Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson. Elizabeth (Liv Ullmann) is a famous actress who is suddenly taken ill and left without speech. While convalescing on the coast, she is cared for by nurse Alma (Bibi Andersson) and, silenced by the effect of her - possibly psychosomatic - illness, finds that her nurse does the talking for both of them. Gradually, the two women's identities begin to merge. Almost impossible to describe in words, this landmark film is a visual tour-de-force which remains as innovative and startling today as it was in 1966. This version is fully uncut and features newly created uncensored subtitles. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3418 Released: 2003 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal Price: £18.71


	Autumn Sonata DVD After a prolonged period of separation, world famous pianist Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) decides to visit her daughter, Eva (Liv Ullman). She is surprised to find that her other daughter, Helena, is no longer staying at the mental institution where Charlotte placed her, but is now living with Eva. As the day moves into night, mother and daughter open up about their feelings and misgivings towards one another. Before long, Charlotte, who chose her musical career over fulfilling her role as a mother, is forced to re-appraise her life and the choices she has made. By the time the night is over, the relationship between these two women will undergo a profound change. Winner of a Bodil Award and a Golden Globe, this stunning and beautifully observed film features an historic union of two of Sweden's national treasures, Ingrid Bergman and Ingmar Bergman, working together for the first and only time. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3419 Released: 2003 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal Price: £18.71


	Wild Strawberries DVD Winner of the Grand Prix Award for Best Film at the 1958 Berlin Film Festival, Ingmar Bergman's classic Wild Strawberries features an elderly academic, introverted and emotionally arid, who makes a journey to collect a university award and en route relives his past through nightmares, dreams and memories as space and time are broken apart to reveal various levels of his inner life. Wild Strawberries is one of Bergman's warmest and finest films. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3369 Released: 2002 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: 2 Price: £18.71


	The Seventh Seal DVD The Black Death is wiping out the population of Europe as Antonius Block, a knight, returns disillusioned from the Crusades. Death appears before him, but asking for a chance to live he proposes a game of chess, whilst around him society collapses and religion becomes fervent and zealous. The Seventh Seal is a stunning allegory of man's search for meaning in life. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3327 Released: 2001 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal Price: £18.71


	Virgin Spring DVD Ingmar Bergman won his first Oscar and the international Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 for The Virgin Spring, a brooding medieval tale based on an old Swedish ballad, closely comparable to The Seventh Seal. The film tells a sombre, powerful fable of peasant parents (Max Von Sydow - The Exorcist - and Birgitta Valberg) whose daughter, a young virgin (Birgitta Pettersson), is brutally raped and murdered after her half sister (Gunnel Lindblom) has invoked a curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, upon discovering the truth about their lodgers, exact a chilling revenge. A cruel and sensational medieval allegory, made all the more powerful for the luminous, haunting black and white photography and Bergman's meticulous direction, was later to be re-made by horror director Wes Craven (Scream) as Last House on the Left. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3395 Released: 2002 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal Price: £18.71


	Summer Interlude DVD Marie is a talented young ballerina. One summer, while staying with her uncle, she meets and falls in love with Henrik, a wealthy college boy. Soon they begin spending their days together and become totally consumed with one another. But, as the summer begins to die and autumn draws in, Marie becomes troubled and is overcome with a deep feeling of unease. Then, on the morning of one of their last few days together, Henrik makes a shallow dive and suffers fatal head and back injuries. Years later, Marie becomes a prima ballerina, but her success is dulled by the pain and devastation she still feels at the loss of her first true love. Soon, a new relationship and the discovery of an old diary will awaken old memories and force her to re-examine her past. This lyrical study of the power of young love from Ingmar Bergman is a poetic evocation of the burden of memory and the power of loss. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3466 Released: 2004 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal Price: £18.71


	Scenes from a Marriage DVD - An honest, probing look at a marriage and its disintegration following an extra-marital affair Marianne has to cope with the infidelity of her husband who she discovers is involved with a younger woman. Bergman examines the trauma of a beleaguered marriage largely in close-up creating an exhaustive study of the doubt, despair, confusion and loneliness experienced by Marianne. Bergman's film is stylistically stark in the tradition of Face to Face and is brought to life by the superb photography. Label: Tartan Video DVD: TVD3442 Released: 2003 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: Universal Price: £18.71


	To Joy DVD One of Ingmar Bergman's earlier works, directed when he was just 30 years old, To Joy is one of the first of his films to exhibit his willingness to explore the most common theme of his later films - the incompatibility of spouses. To Joy tells the tale of two young violinists who both play in an orchestra. The couple marry and have children in a relationship that at least from the outside, appears to be approaching marital bliss. However as the story progresses we see the marriage begin to breakdown and the male partner begins a sordid affair until, eventually, the marriage breaks down under its own weight. Label: Tartan Video Catalogue No.: TVD3443 Released: 2003 Language: Swedish Subtitles: English Region: 0 Price: £18.71

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