律师玛丽安（丽芙•乌曼Liv Ullmann 饰）与精神学讲师约翰（厄兰•约瑟夫森Erland Josephson 饰）结婚十余载，育有两名女儿，生活幸福平稳。朋友皮特（金•玛思索Jan Malmsjö饰）与卡特里娜（毕比•安德森Bibi Andersson 饰）的婚姻生活却濒于解体。感慨万千的玛丽安发现自己怀孕，没曾想约翰竟倾向于打胎。有一天约翰突然向玛丽安提出自己爱上了一名叫宝拉的女子，二人痛苦分居。在协议离婚的过程中，二人的愤懑不满纷纷爆发，直到多年后，玛丽安与约翰才终于体会到爱情是什么。 电视版本分六集，295分钟；电影版168分钟，获1975年金球奖最佳外语片奖，丽芙•乌曼提名金球奖及英国电影电视艺术学院奖最佳女主角。

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergmans video, 2012.)

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.

1978 film by Ingmar Bergman

1955 film by Ingmar Bergman

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

《魔灯》是世界电影巨匠英格玛•伯格曼唯一的生平自述，写于作者拍摄完《芬妮与亚历山大》，宣布结束自己的电影生涯的五年之后。与他的影片同样，本书充满了生动的细节，透露出强烈的内省。伍迪•艾伦称之为“天才之声”。 在这“仅有的一部投入了自己全部文学抱负”的作品中，伯格曼以彻底的严肃性，试图将自己的创作源头与历程和盘托出：童年，父母，宗教，剧场，婚姻与工作。这又是一部现代《忏悔录》，作者坦陈自己的缺点、恐惧、愤怒，青春期时对于纳粹的迷恋，对于性的痴迷，以及导演工作所带来的别样愉悦。二十世纪电影史上一些最重要的时刻，在作者回顾自己的生涯时一一重现，他与卓别林、葛丽泰·嘉宝、卡拉扬、英格利·褒曼等同时代人的交往，和对于塔可夫斯基、费里尼等同行工作的评论不时闪耀其间。 《魔灯》这部反传统自传，在记忆中前后闪回，仿佛一幅视角宏伟而手法细腻的镶嵌画，拼贴出一个来自斯堪的纳维亚乡间的年轻人成长为艺术大师的过程，使读者得以近距离一窥我们这个时代最伟大的心灵。

1961 film by Ingmar Bergman

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs.