Aug 18, 2007, 13:42 GMT
Stockholm- Legendary Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman was buried Saturday in a cemetery on the tiny Baltic Sea island of Faro on Sweden's eastern coast.
Bergman died on July 30 aged 89 in his house on Faro where only 600 people reside.
The filmmaker, who had received several Oscars, and prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, wanted to be buried in the island's graveyard. He became world famous in the 1950s and 1960s with such films as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Hour of the Wolf, and Shame
Bergman had planned his own burial and stipulated that it be held in private, without commemorative speeches and among his closest family members and friends only and led by the pastor Agneta Soderdahl.
Those attending Saturday's ceremony included children, relatives and Swedish actresses Liv Ullmann, 68, and Bibi Andersson, 71, Swedish media reported.
Bergmann was married five times and fathered nine children. Andersson expressed surprise at the media presence on her arrival in Faro and told the Stockholm-based daily Aftonbladet: 'I really thought they had kept it secret here.'
Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell, 59, who is married to Bergman's daughter, Eva, had said earlier that information on the burial would not be made public.
Police had sealed off the cemetery on Friday and asked reporters to keep their distance.
Around 350 mourners reportedly flocked to the island church for the ceremony where there was standing room only.
Bergmann moved to Faro in the early 1960s after a film shoot there making the isle north of Gotland famous.
Witnesses said Bergmann was laid to rest in a simple coffin. According to Swedish custom, it is not unusual to let several weeks pass between death and burial.
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