Swedish filmmaker Bergman dies

LEGENDARY Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, who influenced a generation of film-makers with his often stark works, died yesterday at the age of 89.

The self-taught film-maker and scriptwriter died yesterday morning at his home on Faro Island in the Baltic Sea, chief executive of the Swedish Film Institute, Cissi Elwin said.

“It’s a very big loss today,” Ms Elwin said. “It’s very, very strange and very unreal because Ingmar Bergman is so much (a part of) Swedish film.”