Within a month of the director's death, a Bergman tribute plans to gather many of the auteur's key collaborators and screen rare and unseen Bergman works.
The one-off Bergman tribute was announced this week in Venice by Jannike Ahlund, the organizer of the annual Bergman Week on Bergman's home island, Faro.
Long Live Bergman!, as the event is called, will be staged at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm on Oct 6-7.
Supporters include Svensk, the Ministry of Culture, SVT, the Norstedt Publishing House and the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.
Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson and Liv Ullmann are all slated to attend, as are some major international directors.
An invitation is expected to be offered to Woody Allen.
Among films screened will be Bergman's Cold War thriller This Can't Happen Here (1950), which Bergman forbade from being shown in public while he was alive.
He was reportedly embarrassed by the naive way in which he treated the plight of the Baltic people under Soviet oppression.
'It is not a hidden masterpiece but it helps complete the picture of Bergman,' Ahlund suggests.
Screening for the first time in public will be The Dance Of The Doomed Women, a half-hour film made by Bergman in 1976.
Also being shown for the first time is the film of Bergman's stage version of Ghost Sonata.
There will also be film seminars, panels and exhibitions.
Plans are for one of Bergman's collaborators to introduce each of the 20 screenings planned for the memorial weekend.
The one-off Bergman tribute was announced this week in Venice by Jannike Ahlund, the organizer of the annual Bergman Week on Bergman's home island, Faro.
Long Live Bergman!, as the event is called, will be staged at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm on Oct 6-7.
Supporters include Svensk, the Ministry of Culture, SVT, the Norstedt Publishing House and the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.
Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson and Liv Ullmann are all slated to attend, as are some major international directors.
An invitation is expected to be offered to Woody Allen.
Among films screened will be Bergman's Cold War thriller This Can't Happen Here (1950), which Bergman forbade from being shown in public while he was alive.
He was reportedly embarrassed by the naive way in which he treated the plight of the Baltic people under Soviet oppression.
'It is not a hidden masterpiece but it helps complete the picture of Bergman,' Ahlund suggests.
Screening for the first time in public will be The Dance Of The Doomed Women, a half-hour film made by Bergman in 1976.
Also being shown for the first time is the film of Bergman's stage version of Ghost Sonata.
There will also be film seminars, panels and exhibitions.
Plans are for one of Bergman's collaborators to introduce each of the 20 screenings planned for the memorial weekend.
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