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Another sequence takes place in a nightclub lighted by naked bulbs. Here marcelled flappers dance with their tuxedoed escorts. They are the last few who have hard currency from other countries. "They drank fast, danced fast and made love fast," Bergman told the extras, "so have a merry time...
...Germans learned quickly about Bergman's need for privacy while filming. Special locks were installed on the doors to the sound stages, with keys supplied to only cast and crew. Behind locked doors, a Bergman set is a calm and quiet place of intense concentration. "On the first day of shooting," reports Carradine, "Ingmar walked me through the scene where I discover my brother's dead body. To dramatize my dazed condition, I was ordered to walk into a closet and sit down. That's when I realized I was in a Bergman picture...
...personification of the actor's director, Bergman will clear the set and spend an entire day in rehearsal if he feels his cast is unsure of a scene On closeups, he stands only inches from the actors' faces, mimicking the gestures and expressions he wants. "He choreographs all my moves," says Carradine, "but he can tell from my eyes or expression if I disagree. Then it is a matter of give-and-take, and he is wide open...
...Bergman contends that The Serpent's Egg "was a strange foreshadowing of my future A year before I wrote it, I began to feel that Farö [his beloved island in the Baltic Sea] was not mine any more. I had always thought that I'd live out my life there. But suddenly I felt that it and my possessions no longer belonged to me. I sensed that I would have to leave. A year later I wrote the script. Two months after I finished it, I was arrested [for tax evasion]. Looking back, I think I knew...
...teenager, Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister, spent summers in Germany with the family of a minister who was a dedicated Nazi. In 1935 Bergman went with his hosts to a party rally in Weimar. Caught up in the frenzy that greeted Hitler's arrival, he shouted "Heil Hitler!" along with the rest. He admits: "I was a real little Nazi when I returned to Sweden after that summer, but the infatuation was short-lived. The period fascinates me; I knew I'd do a film about it some...