In 1957 Ingmar Bergman premiered The Seventh Seal, made Wild Strawberries, directed a television film and staged four theatre productions, while juggling several relationships and a difficult family life. Jane Magnusson's documentary uses that single year as a way into the whole life of Sweden's most famous filmmaker. Combining film clips, archive material and interviews with collaborators, actors, relatives and fellow directors, she sets the myth Bergman built around himself against the man others knew: driven, funny and generous, but also capable of real cruelty. Released in the year of his centenary, the film celebrates the work while taking a frank look at the person behind it.