Fårö is a small island off Sweden’s southeast coast.

Its landscape is distinctive; the entire island is made up of limestone rock, with areas of agricultural land interspersed with areas of shrubland.

Very unique rock formations, called "Rauk", can be found. These are a result of erosion during the Ice Age.

The beauty lays in the barren and bare nature, tormented by the wind and sea. It’s peaceful, calm and quit.

A place that makes you take a deep breath, lets you be in the present, and gives a feeling of "coming home" to the origin.

Ingemar Bergman was looking for a location to shoot "Through a Glass Darkly".

He was suggested to travel to Fårö, a place he had never previous visited. His encounter with the island was life-changing.

"If one wished to be solemn, it could be said that I found my landscape, my real home; if one wished to be funny, one could talk about love at first sight".

 He moved here, and left the island only when needed, and he died in his home at Fårö on July 30, 2007.

He was to shoot six films on Fårö, one television series and he also made two documentary films about the island.

The barren, stony landscape framed by the Baltic Sea, has often been regarded as a metaphor for some of Bergmans characters’ inner emotional states.

"The first was intuitive. This is your landscape, Bergman. It corresponds to your innermost imaginings

of forms, proportions, colours, horizons, sounds, silences, lights and reflections.

Security is here. Don't ask why. Explanations are clumsy rationalisations with hindsight.

In, for instance, your profession you look for simplification, proportion, exertion, relaxation, breathing.

The Fårö landscape gives you a wealth of all that."