God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Cowie, Peter

God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780571370917)

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God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Cowie, Peter

God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman

$24.95
God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Cowie, Peter

God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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"Immensely insightful." The Guardian

"A commanding portrait." Total Film

"Indispensable . . . rich, engaging, thorough." Sight & Sound

The first biography of Bergman in 40 years, containing exclusive extracts from workbooks and letters.

'Bergman's films stand alone as beacons in film history.' Wim Wenders


A chronicle of the life and career of one of film's defining figures, God and the Devil draws on exclusive extracts from Bergman's diaries, letters and production workbooks. Peter Cowie brings us close to the man and the artist, as he wrestled with themes of love, sex and betrayal - with the figure of Death always hovering overhead.


Author: Peter Cowie
ISBN-10: 0571370918
ISBN-13: 9780571370917
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
By Peter Cowie
By Peter Cowie
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Peter Cowie began writing about the cinema while at Cambridge University in the early 1960s. In 1963 he founded the annual "International Film Guide", which he edited for four decades. His more than thirty books include studies of Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, and Akira Kurosawa, as well as more than a dozen commentaries on classic films for The Criterion Collection, and has lectured in four continents.

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