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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Aug 15, 2018 12:39:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 15:32:03 GMT
I never read about that before. A little backstory might be useful here. I wonder if this may have had something to do with a film that the two were planning together that never materialized. In 1972 Streisand asked Bergman to direct her in a film version of the operetta The Merry Widow. He wrote the script but she only liked the first half and asked him to rewrite. He refused so she abandoned her plans and the film never happened.
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Post by teleadm on Aug 15, 2018 17:55:11 GMT
The reason he has left Sweden was because of tax problems with Skatteverket (Swedish version of American IRS), so he fled Sweden because he had to pay more than he had earned. Skatteverket had just followed the new laws ignited by the Financial Department, those new laws meant that some persons had to pay more in taxes than they earned, children's books auther Astrid Lindgren also came under that law, and she wrote a biting satire that ridicouled the Governemnt that made them a laughing stock, and eventually lost in the next election. Bergman returned back to Sweden, payed his fees, but made his next project in what was then West-Germany, and not to earn anything in Sweden, The Serpent's Egg 1977.  Bergman directing The Merry Widow isn't as far-fetched as it sounds, he had directed stage versions of the operetta for the theatre, this pic is from Malmö Stadsteater 1954, a box-office success. |
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