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"It's so bleak, it's so Scandinavian"

"I cannot imagine myself working somewhere else than in Sweden."
- Ingmar Bergman, 1960

"Now I leave Sweden!"
- Ingmar Bergman, 1976

 

Winter Light

The relationship between Bergman and the country of his birth was a complex affair, not entirely unlike one of the fraught marriages of his films, an explosive mixture of attraction and antagonism.

Work with references to this subject

Year Work Media
1963 Winter Light Film
1952 The Crown Bride Theatre