Whether headlining films in Sweden, Italy, or Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman always pierced the screen with a singular soulfulness. With this new documentary, made on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Bergman’s birth, director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to her world, culling from the most personal of archival materials—letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super 8 and 16 mm footage Bergman herself shot—and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an undiminished legend.
Disc Features:
High-definition digital transfer, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New interview with director Stig Björkman
Super 8 home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s
Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman’s daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone
Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings
Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role
Outtakes from Bergman’s 1936 film On the Sunny Side
Music video for Eva Dahlgren’s song “The Movie About Us,” which is included on the film’s soundtrack