Stockholm City Council has named a street and a square in the city after Ingmar Bergman.
Vice Mayor Mikael Soderlund dedicated a square near the Royal Dramatic Theater as Ingmar Bergman s Plats Monday. Part of an adjoining road, Smalandsgatan, was also named Ingmar Bergman Street in the ceremony.
Soderlund says the Swedish film director used to stand there in the late evening waiting for a taxi after working at the theater. It is in Ostermalm, which is the area of Stockholm where Bergman grew up.
Bergman, whose films included The Seventh Seal, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander, died in July 2007 at 89. With his combination of deep seriousness, indelible imagery and unexpected flashes of humor, he became known as one of the greatest artists in cinema history. – AP
