Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sweden's welfare state, even prisons have most of the comforts of home. Capital punishment went out 50 years ago, and murderers can count on going free in ten or twelve years. Last week the Swedish government removed one more invidious distinction between being inside and outside prison. The Royal Prison Board decreed that hereafter, Saturday as well as Sunday will be a rest day. Prisoners can spend the time sleeping late, getting a haircut, or sprucing up their rooms...
Swedes wryly joke that hardened Finnish criminals have been moving across the border, finding that crime pays better in Sweden. One group of hobby-loving prisoners put together a radio transmitter, and were stopped only when Stockholm police reported hearing dirty ditties being broadcast on the wrong wave length-their own. Another prisoner was held to have carried visitors' day liberties too far. Giving the prison's street address, he had advertised for cuties whom he photographed in the nude for "art" pictures to sell to fellow inmates...
Pantomime is both basic and superb at the Second City: Charlie Chaplin is figuratively assassinated in a bit called "City Blights," and Sweden's Cinema Director Ingmar Bergman is taken apart in a parody called "Seven Sealed Strawberries." Another regular feature, "Great Books," pours cholesterol into the heart of literature. In one session, as an adult evening class discusses Oedipus Rex, a woman declares brightly: "I think he knew it all the time...
Visions at the Box Office. In the last four years the films of Ingmar Bergman (pronounced Bear ih mahn), almost unknown outside Sweden before 1956, have captured an impressive amount of screen-time in more than a dozen countries. One after another-Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Brink of Life, The Magician-they have carried off top prizes at the big film festivals and set the turnstiles twirling on the commercial circuits as no Scandinavian film has done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product...
...Devil's Eye, was in the can, and he was hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies he has in mind. He will probably make most of them in Sweden. "I have spent 15 years forging my instrument," he says, "and now I have become a part of it. All the legs of the millepede are working at last. Why should I leave...