Searching for Ingmar Bergman

This is an honest documentary, through which Ingmar Bergman is remembered mainly by people who really knew him and worked with him. Although they do remember him in a good way, some are not afraid to subject the great man to mild criticism. So it is not a biased sycophantic glorification of Bergman, for which I give this a big thumbs-up. Undoubtedly, the most important appearance is by Liv Ullmann. I was slightly disappointed that Bergman’s favourite actor Max von Sydow did not appear among the contributors, but that, however, could not be helped. The only flaw in its beauty for me was director Margarethe von Trott constantly needing to always have the last word and jump on the interviewees in such a way that they could only then simply nod and repeat: "Yes, yes, yes," thus confirming that she is capable director, but as a facilitator, she failed and that irritates slightly. However, I still left feeling positively about the documentary. [KVIFF 2018] (29.06.2018)