Ingmar Bergman on how the iconic final shot in 'The Seventh Seal' (1957) was improvised: "The final scene when Death dances off with the travelers was, as I said, shot at Hovs hallar. We had packed up for the day because of an approaching storm. Suddenly, I caught sight of a strange cloud. Gunnar Fischer hastily set the camera back into place. Several of the actors had already returned to where we were staying, so a few grips and a couple of tourists danced in their place, having no idea what it

The pictorial style of ‘Through a Glass Darkly’ (1961) & ‘Winter Light’ (1963) had been restrained, even chaste. An American distributor asked, despair in his voice: “Ingmar, why don’t you move your camera anymore? Ingmar Bergman | History of Cinema