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When sex is the strongest chemical in the pill, it takes a phenomenal dose to have much effect on the shockproof Swedes-but Bergman at the moment has them reeling. His new film, Silence, has opened in Stockholm, and for the first time a sizable number of Swedish moviegoers are wondering if the dose has grown too powerful. Growling dark epithets, people are actually leaving the theater midway through the film. Others go away slowly at the end, stunned, like children retreating from a keyhole...
...general intellectual counterattack to all this was summed up in a letter to the daily Aftonbladet. "Is a film immoral," asked the writer, "just because it shows immoral people?" The point remains moot in smoldering Stockholm. Bergman himself has had no disturbing second thoughts. Silence is the third segment of a trilogy about God, according to Ingmar. The first two parts were Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Silence is intended to depict the cold horror of human existence when God averts his face and there is no light...
...title Vicar of Christ on Earth, which is one of the official designations of Roman Catholic Popes. The first play of Germany's Rolf Hochhuth, 32, it ran for five months last season in West Berlin's Free People's Theater, is now showing in Stockholm, Basel and at London's Royal Shakespeare Theater...
Last week, Stockholm's Royal Caroline Institute played it both ways and decided to award the 1963 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine (worth $51,000) to two wets...
...Cardinal Disapproves. It is to this foreign resistance that the Witnesses are addressing themselves this summer-one of the few summers left, they feel, before Armageddon. In 24 massive rallies, starting June 30 in Milwaukee, they are rolling eastward around the world: New York, London, Stockholm, currently Milan and Munich, then on to Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Singapore and Honolulu, ending in Pasadena in September. In Germany, where the sect numbers 79,000 (compared with 308,000 in the U.S.) and can boast that 12,000 of the faithful served time in Nazi concentration camps, opposition is particularly high...