the swedish film director ingmar bergman died yesterday
morning at his home on the island of fårö, sweden at the
age of 89.

for many film enthusiasts, bergman was the greatest of the
authorial film-makers of the 1950s and 1960s. his best know
works include persona, autumn sonata, cries and whispers,
the virgin spring, through a glass darkly and fanny and alexander.

the director once said: 'my pictures are always part of my thinking,
and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. sometimes they appear
from the past, sometimes they grow up from my present life.' he later
commented that 'he could hardly bear to watch his own movies',
apparently they made him so miserable.

read the BBC obituary: ingmar bergman
see bergmans life in pictures