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Island Lighthouse and Ingmar Bergman.

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Faro has also lived the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman , who visited the island for the first time in 1960 in search of locations for his film ("Through a Glass Darkly"). When docked in Faro
Bergman fell in love with it: he was standing there, bent to face the storm after a stormy crossing with rain and snow, when he realized that he wanted to live on that island for the rest of his days. "... First of all were the signs of my intuition: this is your landscape, Bergman. Corresponds to your most intimate ideas on the forms, proportions, colors, horizons, sounds, silences, the lights and reflections. Here is the security ... "(I. BERGMAN, Lanterna Magica, Garzanti)

Then he returned there in 1965 for the filming of" Person. "He decided to build a house with panoramic sea views and live there. A

Fårö Bergman turned, as well as in a mirror , Person (1966), Shame (1968), Passion (1970) , parts of Scenes of marriage (1973) and two documentaries on the inhabitants of the island. In addition, it was there that he completed the installation of Flute Magic (1974) and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
lovers of his films can not miss the " Bergman Week, an event that in past years has attracted, at most, about 2,000 visitors (the island is not huge). This event lasts, in fact, a week and sees on the calendar seminars, exhibitions, screenings of unpublished documents and visits to those locations used by the great director for his masterpieces.