Michigan Quarterly Review, October 1st, 2000
Ingmar Bergman began his film career with a paranoid invention salvaged by Alf Sjoberg, who, from the sketch submitted by Bergman, put the Swedish cinema on the map in 1944 with the film known in the United States as Torment. The germ of this movie was Bergman's fear that he would be flunked on his university entrance examination; his revenge in advance was his creation of a tyrannical schoolmaster whom he aptly named Caligula. (Sjoberg added a political implication by having the actor made up to resemble Himmler, chief of the Reichsfuhrer SS.) Over the years, Bergman's compulsion to nourish e...
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