Stockholm - The allure of the late Swedish director Ingmar Bergman helped push bids for items from his estate way over initial estimates, final tallies showed Tuesday.

The auction generated 18 million kronor (2.57 million dollars), Tom Osterman of the auction house Bukowsksis told the German Press Agency dpa, while the combined asking prices were some 2 million kronor.

"We made cautious estimates," Osterman said, and since it was Bergman "we decided the market should decide the surplus value."

Stockholm - Fans of the late Swedish director  will be able to bid for items from his estate including a Golden Globe award and possibly the famous chess set from The Seventh Seal, the auction house Bukowski said Thursday.

The auction wwill take place on September 28 and is in accordance with Bergman's last wish, stipulating "no emotional hullabaloo," the auction house said.

Bergman died at age 89 in 2007. Many of the 300 items were from his home on Faro, an isle off northern Gotland in the Baltic Sea.