Ingmar+bergman

Ingmar Bergman (1918- 2007) made fifty films, directed more than 150 theatre productions and wrote several books, but the recurrent thread running through his life was music. He often said that if he hadn't become a director he would have wished to become a conductor, and went so far as to claim that ‘film and music are almost the same thing. They are means of expression and communication that go beyond human wisdom and that touch a person’s emotional centre.’ Bergman’s interest in classical music became evident early on in his career.

Ingmar Bergman is worldwide known as a film and stage director. Yet no-one has attempted to compare his stage and screen activities. In Between Stage and Screen Egil Törnqvist examines formal and thematical correspondences and differences between a number of Bergman's stage, screen, and radio productions.

Summer With Monica belongs to Bergman's middle period when he was primarily concerned with the trials and tribulations of adolescence and the problems of young love. A chance meeting in a coffee shop between Monika (Harriet Andersson), a wild and reckless girl who works in a nearby grocery shop and Harry (Lars Ekborg) a young errand boy, soon develops into a love affair. (-DVD cover)