The former island retreat of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman has been put up for sale. The four building estate is located on Faro Island, just off the northern tip of Gotland in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of Sweden. The famed director died in 2007 at the age of 89, and now the estate is being auctioned off in Stockholm.
The property has a restored 1854 farmhouse and barn that the filmmaker converted into a private screening room. Mr. Bergman often spent time in his two room timber writing lodge working on scripts and fine-tuning his many projects. He had the building specially designed by architect Kjell Abramson and it has magnificent views of the sea.
Bergman first discovered the island in 1960 as he was looking for a place to film Through a Glass Darkly and said that he had found his real home. He also filmed some of his most well-known films on the island, including The Shame, The Passion of Anna and Persona.
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