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| Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who will celebrate his 80th birthday
on 14 July 1998, will disclose the passion-filled drama of a woman from
his own life in Trolosa (The Faithless), a new feature with Lena Endre
in the lead, to be directed by Liv Ullmann for Swedish public broadcaster
SVT Drama.
At a press conference in Stockholm last week (Friday, 8 May), Bergman
announced "a morality which does not moralise," the story of a woman (Lena
Endre) torn between two men (Krister Henriksson, Thomas Hanzon) and a nine-year-old
daughter.
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| "In the film she tells an author – ie Bergman – about
this very dramatic part of her life. It happened a long time ago, and I
knew the persons involved very well. But I could not write about it till
now, when they are all gone," he explained.
Described as "a modern day emotional thriller," Trolosa (The Faithless) will shoot from August 1999, with Jorgen Persson behind the camera, and it will be theatrically released sometime in the year 2000. The full version will later be aired by SVT. "I had actually stopped this film business, but I am not totally unlike the Swedish actor, Anders de Wahl, who gave at least 50 farewell performances," said Bergman. "However, had Lena Endre not accepted the part, there would have been nothing of it." "I can reassure those, who usually worry about my productions being about my mother, my father, my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunts, my uncles or my cousins, that in this film none will appear. There is only one exception – myself. But according to Liv Ullmann I am such a bad actor that Erland Josephson has to impersonate me. He has a certain routine in doing that, having already played me in the television play, Efter repetitionen (After the Rehearsal)." In 1982 Bergman, whose latest television play Larmar och gor sig till (In the Presence of a Clown) is screening in Un Certain Regard, declared that his Academy Award-winning Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) would be his last film. He has been busy in the wings, though, writing scripts both for Bille
August (Den goda viljan/The Best Intentions), who was awarded the Golden
Palm in 1992, his son Daniel (Sondagsbarn/ Sunday's Children), and Liv
Ullmann, whose Enskilda samtal (Private Confessions) was in Un Certain
Regard last year.
Bergman's own women:
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