At the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgard (74) made explosive comments about the legendary director Ingmar Bergman.
When Skarsgard received the Crystal Globe Award, he called Bergman “Nazis during the war” and claimed that he was “the only person I knew who cried when Hitler died”.
Stellan describes Bergman as “manipulative”
He described Bergman as a deeply “manipulative” with a “very strange view” that he treated some people as “unworthy”.
These notes refer to Bergman’s own acceptance: Bergman wrote in his 1987 memory that he had been “on the Hitler side” for years and held Hitler’s photograph as teenage after he saw him in 1934.
Skarsgard worked with Bergman on the 1986 scene, but called their relationship “complicated” because of Bergman’s hard personality.
He explained, “He was a nice director but you can still condemn a person like {a *******}”
Although Bergman gave up Nazism after the horrors of the World War and called the Holocaust “a disgusting shock”, Skarsgard indicated that his earlier conviction had formed his cruel behavior.
The actor contrasted it with director Lars von Trier (who faced a controversy for Nazi jokes) and basically defended him as the “opposite” of the Nazis despite defective humor.
The revelation of the festival and the reflections of the inheritance
Skarsgard’s comments came in promotion *sentimental value *-no film where he plays a defective director.
He thought about artistic heritings, noticed that the fame was “short -term” and admits, “I will soon be dead”. The festival appreciated its 50+ years of career, from the children’s actor in Bombi Bott to Dune and Mamma Mia!, Where he joked that he was objectivized as one of the three “cute and stupid” male “bimbos”.
Despite the recent health struggles affecting his memory, he committed to playing on: “Is there anything I would like to try?”
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