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No more Strawberries
In 1935, Ingmar staged his first theatre production, August Strindberg's A Dream Play. He started writing short stories and plays, and, by the age of 26, was the youngest theatre manager in Europe. Strindberg was to be a perpetual Bergman influence, even as the Swede wrote his first film script, Hets, in 1949.
Direction followed, with several small-budget efforts. Major international success deluded him until his 1955 film, Smiles Of The Summer Night, the director's self-confessed attempt at wit.
Visibly, Bergman was already showing his characteristic insight into the female psyche, with incisively written characters.
Image: Unlocated picture dated in the 1960s shows Ingmar Bergman teaching his son Daniel how to handle a camera while Bergman's wife and Daniel's mother Kibi Laretai watches. Daniel became later a film and theater director.
Photograph: Lennart Nilsson/AFP/Getty Images
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