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Since he was a young man, Erland Josephson has been acting on the stage and in film, and his association with director Ingmar Bergman is almost as old as his career. He says he first appeared on the stage in 1945 in a play which Bergman directed. And since that time, the two have collaborated on numerous plays, films and scripts...
...Josephson says Bergman was directing all over Stockholm in both amateur and professional productions. "I was 15 or 16 and he was 20 or 21. He wanted to be experienced as soon as possible," Josephson says. "And then suddenly, he became the leader of a small theater in the south of Sweden." There the two cemented their friendship and collaboration...
Susan A. Zielinski, the coordinator of the program sponsoring Josephson's visit, said his coming to speak is particularly valuable since he has worked with such a large number of European directors...
Vlada Petric, the director of the Harvard Film Archives, said that the idea of bringing Josephson to Harvard grew out of his "Film and Dreams" course, which includes a detailed study of dream sequences in Bergman films, such as "Hour of the Wolf," in which Josephson stars...
Petric called Josephson "one of those rare actors who can critically evaluate the process of his creation, [as well as being] a writer, a dramatist, and a director...