Ingmar Bergman grew up in a Swedish Lutheran parsonage where punishment was administered with clinical precision — humiliation, locked closets, and a household ruled by guilt and silence. He turned that childhood into the most psychologically penetrating body of work in cinema history. The Seventh Seal, Persona, Scenes from a Marriage, and Fanny and Alexander are not just films — they are exorcisms.

This episode traces Bergman from his punitive childhood through the Swedish theater career, the films that made him the most respected director in world cinema, and the tax exile and island retreat that defined his later years.

• The Lutheran parsonage childhood and the punishments that became the raw material of his art
• The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and the 1950s films that established him internationally
• Persona, Cries and Whispers, and the increasingly radical psychological explorations
• The tax scandal, the exile, and the retreat to Faro island where he spent his final decades