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

by Peter Cowie (Author)

"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 Biography

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.