On the death of Ingmar Bergman

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi recalls a meeting with Ingmar Bergman. "I met Bergman at the European Film Academy's founding ceremony. He warned me that he had difficulties in his relations with other people, and he wasn't joking - it really was the case. His was the strange behaviour of a director who has proven that cinematic art can move people in the same way the best literature can: by dealing with eschatological subjects, life's secrets, religion, faith and inner conflict. This he owed to his childhood in a strictly Protestant family. And this is why Bergman's statements about family relations, education, religion and the hypocrisy it conceals were not an act of revenge but have the value of deeply-experienced reflection."

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