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...refuge." He soon meets Anna Fromm, a widow who has fantasized her late marriage into a monolith of Truth and Happiness, despite strong indications that she actually murdered her husband and child in a car crash. She has recovered and lives near Andreas with Eva and Elis Vergerus (Bibi Andersson and Erland Josephson). Eva has always felt rootless, meaningless, and useless, has remained childless. Her husband, on the other hand, represents a significant alternative to these varieties of despair by maintaining a brutal cynicism. The highly successful architect finds security in his belief in nothingness, considering it "hypocritical...
...coast. Bearded, racked, his Christlike face appears to be a skull in rented skin. Indeed, his humanity is as transient as his lust. Andreas' only "friend" is Elis (Erland Josephson), a corrupt architect who shrewdly offers Andreas his money and haplessly lends him his frigid wife Eva (Bibi Andersson). She proves but a temporary distraction...
...narrative is more pattern than plot. In a train compartment, a student named Hans (Erik Wedersoe) eyes a blonde dancer (Harriet Andersson) and dreams of his fiancee and his mistress. Suddenly, scenes of the train's pistons pounding are intercut. A title flashes "Could anything be more erotic than a train?" Hans and the dancer have a quick assignation in the W.C. He goes to see his fiancee, who has turned into a whore. She leaves for America with a man whom Hans has recently cuckolded. In a hectic burlesque of Schnitzler's La Ronde, every character...
...married an Oslo psychiatrist, Hans Stang. By the time she was 26, she was a major stage actress in her own country, with four films to her credit. But her fame remained sealed inside Norway until Bergman, struck by the resemblance between Ullman and his longtime star, Bibi Andersson, (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries) offered her a role in his study of personality transference, Persona. Radiant over her success as an actress and her selection by Bergman, she told the Stockholm press: "I am a very happy girl. I had two great wishes in my life, and they both came...
Swedish Explorer Johan Gunnar Andersson discovered several of its fossilized branches on Norway's Bear Island in 1899. Remnants of its fanlike leaves have since been found in Alaska. But it remained for Bonn University Paleobotanist Hans-Joachim Schweitzer to determine that an ancient plant called Pseudobornia ursina was actually a tree that grew as high as 65 ft.-50 million years earlier than other trees of comparable height are known to have appeared. On a recent expedition to Bear Island, Schweitzer reports in the current issue of the German journal Umschau, he unearthed the first portion of Pseudobornia...