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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adrian Horton

Stellan Skarsgård on Ingmar Bergman: ‘The only person I know who cried when Hitler died’

Stellan Skarsgård in June 2025
Stellan Skarsgård in June 2025. Photograph: Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images

Stellan Skarsgård has weighed in on famed director Ingmar Bergman’s Nazi sympathies as a young adult.

The actor was speaking at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic, where he was promoting Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value, inspired by the late Swedish director. Skarsgård expressed his personal dislike of Bergman, with whom he worked on a 1986 stage production of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play.

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