Harriet Andersson

A Norwegian businessman has bought the late Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman's former house, reports said on Friday. Hans Gude Gudesen, who made a fortune in IT, hopes to turn the property into an arts centre supported by a foundation, according to Swedish media. The director died in 2007 and his belongings have been sold at auction in Stockholm over recent months, in accordance with his wishes. Gudesen paid an undisclosed sum for the property, which was valued at between three and four million euros. The property consists of four buildings -- one of which housed Bergman's private cinema -- on the coast of ... Read Full Story

Swedish media says a Norwegian businessman has bought late filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's secluded island home for an undisclosed sum. Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter cites the director's daughter, Linn Ullman, as saying that Norwegian archaeologist, inventor and entrepreneur Hans Gude Gudesen bought the property on the small Baltic Sea island of Faro. According to Friday's report, those working in the sectors of film, music, theater, literature and photography will be able to seek scholarships to live and work at the estate for certain periods of time. Bergman died on July 30 in 2007. He is famous for cinema classics such as "The Seventh Seal" ... Read Full Story

A chipped and incomplete chess set believed to have featured in one of Ingmar Bergman's best known films fetched one of the highest bids at a special auction for the late director's belongings, auction house officials said Tuesday. The set, which had been valued at around 10,000-15,000 kronor ($1,430-$2,150), sold for 1 million kronor ($142,000), said Charlotte Bergstrom, a spokeswoman at Bukowskis in Stockholm. It is missing a white king and is believed to have been used in "The Seventh Seal," one of Bergman's most famous films. "In one part of the film, Max von Sydow sweeps his mantle over the table and the ... Read Full Story

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The chess board used in Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's 1957 movie the "Seventh Seal" was sold at auction for 1 million Swedish crowns ($143,300) on Monday, said auction house Bukowski's. It said 337 items belonging to Bergman, who died in 2007 at the age of 89, were auctioned in Stockholm for a total of 18 million crowns -- about ten times the starting price. The items included film prizes and awards, a bedside table with notes in Bergman's handwriting and a desk at which he wrote many of his scripts. In the "Seventh Seal," a crusader played by Max von Sydow ... Read Full Story

Personal items belonging to the late Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman will go up for auction in Stockholm on September 28 in line with his final wishes. The items, including furniture, artworks, cinema and theatre awards, knick-knacks and crockery, were shown to the press Tuesday at Bukowski's auction house. A total of 339 objects from Bergman's home on the remote Baltic island of Faaroe will go under the hammer, with the proceeds going to his family. "It's a small auction of a very famous person," senior curator Tom Oesterman told AFP. Bergman died on July 30, 2007 at the age of 89 after directing more ... Read Full Story