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Stellan Skarsgard Talks About ‘Nazi’ Ingmar Bergman: ‘He Was the Only Person I Know Who Cried When Hitler Died’

Stellan Skarsgard talks 'Nazi' Ingmar Bergman, Joachim Trier's Oscar contender 'Sentimental Value' at Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

As well as humble yet blissful beginnings, which included romancing Juliette Binoche’s character in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” where she played the long-suffering partner of philandering Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis). But it was Lars von Trier ’s “Breaking the Waves” that really put him on the map: a harrowing drama about a woman who starts prostituting herself after her husband is paralyzed. Skarsgård started his career as a child star in popular show “Bombi Bott och jag”: “It was like a Swedish Huckleberry Finn, about a wild kid living freely.

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