"The world's greatest living filmmaker" (Time Magazine) is dead. According to the Swedish news agency TT, citing his daughter Eva, Ingmar Bergman died peacefully in his house on the island Fårö in the Baltic Sea. His older works showed a great fear of death, but in recent years he called death "a very wise arrangement". Ingmar Bergman was 89 years old.

It's less than 10 months ago that I myself saw him for the first and the last time in the Filmhuset in Stockholm. He was in the crowd of a cinema event, talking with some people around him. In the filminstitute it was said that he was quite open for students to talk with them about his life and his works. A pity, he already went of. But how nice for him the way he went of - no reason to be afraid.

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