BEHIND THE MIRROR. Ingmar Bergman in the National Museum of Cinema Sablich Collection

2018 is the centenary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth. Bergman was both a sophisticated investigator and a merciless contemporary being dealing with topics which range from nostalgia for his youth to the fear of death, from a crisis in his faith to the underlying lie in human relations. His work on language stemmed from  very classical forms of narrative and over decades became  an opportunity where the particular features of filmmaking could develop.

The Mario Gromo Library Mediatheque and the Sablich Collection of the National Museum of Cinema are pleased to announce the opening of Behind the Mirror (Dietro lo Specchio) an event dedicated to Ingmar Bergman. The wealth of documentation Sergio Sablich  – the Bergman and Swedish cinema fan musicologist  gathered over time has been shaped into a journey though the world of specialised in popular Italian and foreign journals & magazines highlighting the figure of Bergman and of his films. The Sablich Collection was donated to the National Museum of Cinema in 2007, a rich and comprehensive compilation of materials on the great Swedish master, some of which are unique as well as being complete, making it ‘a centre for the memory of Bergman’.