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Germany | Suicide
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This is director Ingmar Bergman's only big-budget production. It was made at the height of Bergman's worldwide popularity as an arthouse filmmaker and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, who insisted on shooting in the English language and casting an American star to make it more appealing for the American market. Unfortunately, the film got mostly bad reviews and failed to generate any commercial interest in America, but it did respectable business in Europe.
The movie was made by Ingmar Bergman during a period of self-imposed exile for charges of tax evasion. Bergman originally fled to Paris, France but didn't like it there, and went to West Germany, and ended up making a deal to make an English language feature to be shot there.
Ingmar Bergman's screenplay in Swedish was translated into English for this movie.
At one point, Ingmar Bergman wanted to cast David Bowie in the lead role.
Films that were an inspiration to Ingmar Bergman for this picture were Fritz Lang's M (1931) and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel (1930) / The Blue Angel (1930).
"Abel Rosenberg: I wake up from a nightmare and find that real life is worse than the dream."
"Hans Vergerus: [explains the upcoming social and political developments in Germany to Abel Rosenberg] It's like a serpent's egg. Through the thin membranes, you can clearly discern the already perfect reptile."
