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