Ingmar Bergman's Actors: Gunnar Björnstrand

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Gunnar Bjornstrand. Then Gunnar fell ill, he had problems with storing text - remembering Bergman - the premiere in a private theater ended with a catastrophe, and to top it off a couple of nosy Stockholm critics mix it with dirt. I wanted him to take part in my last film, because we worked together for the rest of my cinematic life (start had been made by Mr. Pyurman in the movie "Rain over our love"). I wrote to Gunnar role. More or less in view of his illness: Director of Theatre in "Fanny and Alexander." Director, producer and pere noble in one person. The troupe gives "Twelfth Night." Gunnar plays the Jester. In the end, he sits on the stairs with a lighted candle on his bald crown and a red umbrella in hand. And sings the song Fool: "And the rain poured down every night." Rain pours well, it looks stylish and touching, like in the taste of Bjornstrand. Our cameraman, documentary never for a moment lose sight of Gunnar. No one, including me, knows that he perpetuates this remarkable day in Sodra Teatern. Gunnar hard. Heavily with memory, hard to coordinate movements. We have done countless doubles, but neither he nor I did not have even a remote thought to give up. He fought heroically with his illness and elusive memory. In the end, the episode with the clown was fully recorded on the tape. Complete triumph. In a two-hour documentary about the filming of "Fanny and Alexander" the struggle and triumph Gunnar Bjornstrand occupied a central place. At this time he began to appear signs of Alzheimer's syndrome. He was born and died in front of Bergman, played in 22 films - more than anyone else. One of the main reasons for this is that Gunnar was adequate expression of the very essence of the director on the screen. Gunnar took his stage name Bjornstrand ... It needed to a young star for not to become a shadow of his father, who was a leading actor Svenska Teatern, which at that time, thundered, eclipsing the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Yes, even to the same parents were against the will of his son becoming an actor ... But the son did not listen to parents, and instead bought the right to name "Bjornstrand" for 40 euros and went to the theater "Lilla". In 1933, when Gunnar was 24 years old he was invited to the school of Royal Dramatic Theatre, a rival of his father's Svenska Theatre. Three years later, Gunnar and his wife Lilly went to the Swedish Theater "Vase" in Finland, after two years of work in it, they returned to Sweden. Home country met the young actors with cold winds and not creative atmosphere in the world of theater... That way Gunnar appeared to concentrate at work in the movie, where he announced himself as a comedy actor. Yeah, Bjornstrand had laugh at what and who, though his first roles in film was as strict police ... So Gunnar's laugh brought him to the first handshake with Ingmar Bergman, in 1941, when they had their first job in the theater on "Ghost Sonata". However, it isn't brought the success neither young director nor by six years older actor. First lead role in the movie Gunnar had in 1942, in film scripted by Gunnar Fischer, who would later become known as one of the main operators of Bergman. At this time, the early Bjornstrand's role of "strict police" in the movie works took the form of "strict Nazi" which he began to play in the movies one after the other... Knut Gunnar Johansson Bjornstrand wear swastika, earned good money on "fascism", until 1944, when Bergman asked him to "torment"... This was the name of a directorial debut of Ingmar Bergman. At this time, "Svensk Filmindastri" to 25-year anniversary of the company, ordered from different directors six pictures and the Bergman's film was one of them. Gunnar Bjornstrand decided that working in the cinema a priority for him, because here more equality than in the theater, here are important components of all the work, all in the mind, while in the theater director - a major star ever. So Gunnar decided to take the final step in the direction of film, which documented a contract with the "Svensk Filmindastri", where Bergman has worked. For a long time Ingmar and Gunnar were almost hostile relations, and their joint work on two movies during this time is not based on a creative union, but on a professional basis. But, "demons" and "corpses", such nicknames were in the studio departments, which were attributed to Ingmar and Gunnar could not long remain alone... In 1952, Bergman personally invited Bjornstrand for her role in "Women are waiting." Since that time, Bergman began writing roles specifically for Gunnar by presenting them for a meal together at a restaurant. May 24, 1986 Gunnar Bernstrand's star gone to heaven.