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...inhuman overtones of Scandian religion. Yet because Bergman does not delincate human characters that can give the story direction, the film does not coalesce. His films, dreamlike, display the actors only as participants in individual scenes; despite the skill of such members of the troupe as von Sydow, the individuals never achieve a life and personality that can tie the film together...
Elizabeth Taylor has been signed on as Mary Magdalene. Rumors have Marlon Brando as Judas, Spencer Tracy as Pontius Pilate. But last week Director George Stevens released the biggest casting news of the Hollywood year: Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, 31, has been chosen to play Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. One of the ablest members of Ingmar Bergman's close-knit film and theater team, Von Sydow was the mysterious hero of The Magician, the God-haunted knight in The Seventh Seal, the avenging father in The Virgin Spring. When the Hollywood offer came, says...
...usual, all of Bergman's actors perform excellently. Max von Sydow, memorable as the Knight in The Seventh Seal, is especially outstanding for his intense portrayal of Vogler, the leader of a group of entertainers who practice Mesmer's "animal magnetism" in nineteenth-century Europe...
...herdsmen three," the ballad continues, "took her to wife/ And then from her they took her life./ Her body in the mire they lay/ And with her garments went away." That night the murderers take shelter at a farmhouse, unaware that the farm belongs to the father (Max von Sydow) of their victim. When they offer to sell him the girl's garments, he slaughters them like the animals they are. Then he rushes through the forest to his daughter's corpse...
...cinemactors assembled under one roof. Among the principals: Gunnar Björnstrand, a skinny, thin-lipped, cold-eyed man who portrays the intellectual icicles Bergman loves to dissolve; Eva Dahlbeck, a bright-eyed, matronly blonde who is far and away the finest comedienne in the troupe; Max von Sydow, a tall, gaunt, rugged actor who generally personifies Bergman's spiritual search and sufferings; Harriet Andersson, a full-lipped Eve, the much-nibbled apple of the Bergman hero's eye; Bibi Andersson, the company's cleverest and most appealing...