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Obituary

9 articles available in total starting from 26/05/2005. Last article published on 27/02/2012.

Swedish actor and Bergman favourite Erland Josephson dies at 88

Erland Josephson collaborated with his life-time friend Ingmar Bergman on 40 films and plays, but also worked with Cavani, Makavejev, Kaufman, Tarkovsky – and on his own  

27/02/2012 | Obituary | Sweden

Film world bids farewell to Raúl Ruiz

Chilean-born director Raúl Ruiz died this morning in Paris at the age of 70, after a long illness. During a career spanning almost 50 years (many of those spent in France, where he went into exile...  

19/08/2011 | Obituary

The "poet of cinema” dies

The news came as a shock wave for Sweden and the international film community when Swedish wire agency TT announced on the morning of Monday, July 31 that Ingmar Bergman, one of the last living...  

01/08/2007 | Obituary | Sweden

Italian filmmaker Antonioni dies at 94

Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy's most famous and influential filmmakers, has died at the age of 94, city officials in Rome said on Tuesday. Considered the cinematic father of modern angst...  

31/07/2007 | Obituary | Italy

Swedish director Bergman dead

Legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89, an official at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre said on Monday. Earlier, the local news agency TT cited Bergman's daughter Eva...  

30/07/2007 | Obituary | Sweden

Farewell to Francis Girod

A wealth of homages were paid yesterday to director Francis Girod following the announcement of his death from a heart attack in Bordeaux early Sunday morning. The 61 year-old filmmaker, a former...  

20/11/2006 | Obituary | France

Lights off for Sven Nykvist

Legendary Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist died Wednesday in Stockholm at the age of 83. He had been suffering from aphasia since the late 1990s. Nicknamed "the master of light", Nykvist was...  

22/09/2006 | Obituary | Sweden

Farewell to Vilgot Sjoman

Vilgot Sjöman, one of Sweden’s finest and most controversial film personalities, passed away last Sunday morning in Stockholm at the age of 81. The writer/filmmaker who studied film at UCLA in...  

11/04/2006 | Obituary | Sweden

Ismael Merchant dies aged 68

The Indian-born producer and long-time collaborator to James Ivory died yesterday afternoon May 25 in a London hospital. Merchant was born in Bombay in 1936 and moved to New York to study Business...  

26/05/2005 | Obituary | UK

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