Ingmar Bergman: Laterna magica (odlomak)

Moj život: laterna magica - Ingmar Bergman (odlomak).

INGMAR BERGMAN – HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

THE MAGIC LANTERN

To be honest, I think back on my early years with delight and curiosity. My
imagination and senses were given nourishment, and I remember nothing dull, in fact the
days and hours kept exploding with wonders, unexpected sights and magical moments. I
can still roam through the landscape of my childhood and again experience lights, smells,
people, rooms, moments, gestures, tones of voice and objects. These memories seldom
have any particular meaning, but are like short or longer films with no point, shot at
random.
The prerogative of childhood is to move unhindered between magic and oatmeal
porridge, between boundless terror and explosive joy. There were no boundaries except
prohibitions and regulations, which were shadowy, mostly incomprehen-sible. For
instance, I know I did not grasp the concept of time. You really must learn to be punctual.
You’ve been given a watch and you know how to tell the time. But time ceased to exist,
something told me I was probably hungry, there was a row.
It was difficult to differentiate between what was fantasy and what was considered
real. If I made an effort, I was perhaps able to make reality stay real. But, for instance,
there were ghosts and spectres. What should I do with them? And the sagas, were they
real?

Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) is considered by many to be the world’s greatest living film director and is also internationally well known as a theatre, television and opera director. He was born in 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden, and studied at Stockholm University. From 1943 to
1946 he was a producer and scriptwriter for Svensk Filmindustri and, later, Artistic
Adviser. He has directed at theatres throughout Sweden as well as abroad and was Head
of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm from 1963 to 1966. His many films include
The Seventh Seal, Smiles of a Summer Night, Persona, The Virgin Spring, Through a
Glass Darkly, Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, Face to Face, Autumn
Sonata, The Serpent’s Egg, From the Life of the Marionettes and Fanny and Alexander,
winner of four Academy Awards. Ingmar Bergman has received many international
awards and prizes for his films, including the Goethe Prize in 1976 and the Swedish Gold
Medal in 1977.

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