Fårö

This small island directly north of Gotland, is one of the most popular and talked-about places to visit in Sweden. As well as its wonderful sandy beaches, magnificent landscape and towering sea-stacks if you are a movie buff you will love Fårö as it is the former home of world famous Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

From the early 1960s Ingmar Bergman chose to live on Fårö for the greater part of his life, the rugged landscape and sense of solitude created a perfect location for him and became a hallmark of many of his films.

He lived and died on Fårö and several of his films were filmed here, among them Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Persona (1966), Hour of the Wolf (1968), Shame (1968), The Passion of Anna (1969), and Scenes from a Marriage (1972),[8] as well as Liv Ullmann’s Faithless (2000), based on a Bergman screenplay.