#Liv ullmann max von sydow tv#

When von Sydow rang the director and asked if he could play the part, Bergman brushed him aside with a brusque no.Īfter graduation, von Sydow worked on a number of Swedish films and acted at numerous city theatres (including Norrköping-Linköpings City Theatre, where Ingmar Bergman saw von Sydow in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo), before he was hired in Helsingborg.

Von Sydow had already sought out a film role during his first year in Stockholm, upon hearing that Ingmar Bergman was looking for an extra to play the part of a policeman in Prison. Royal Dramatic Theatre director Alf Sjöberg cast von Sydow in his first film role in 1949's Only a Mother. Being inspired by this experience, he started amateur theatre company Scenia with a few of his friends, and they staged plays by August Strindberg, Pär Lagerkvist and Hjalmar Bergman.Īfter completing military service, where he adopted the name Max after a flea in a flea circus, von Sydow attended the Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school from 1948 to 1951, where he studied alongside the likes of Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. His father was a professor of ethnography at Lund University and his mother was a grammar school teacher.Īt the age of 15, von Sydow attended a performance of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the newly opened Malmö City Theatre. This version is currently out-of-print.Born Carl Adolf von Sydow on 10 April 1929 in Lund in southern Sweden, he was the only child in father Carl Wilhelm von Sydow's second marriage. The film was released on DVD by VCI Entertainment in February 2000. It was re-released in 1981 under the title Lunatic by 21st Century Film Corporation. The film was released theatrically in North America in 1971 by Universal Marion Corporation (UMC). The music was arranged for synthesizer, 12 woodwinds, organ, two pianos and two harpsichords and Mancini achieved an unsettling effect by having one of the harpsichords tuned a quarter-tone flat.

#Liv ullmann max von sydow tv#

The film is notable for its unusual score by renowned Hollywood film and TV composer Henry Mancini. This bang also forms the final punch line of the film.Ĭhristopher Lee was first choice to play Salem, but was not available. But his alibi is ruined in a completely unexpected, spectacular way. Salem manages to return to his cell before being discovered. Broken, Anton confesses his crime to the inspector as he hurries to the asylum. Anton arrives as Salem proceeds to wipe the blood on the doctor's clothes before running back to the asylum. After the police leave, Ester is cornered and hacked to pieces by Salem when she attempts to flee. Salem reveals that Anton murdered the farmhand when he caught him and Emma attempting to burn down the farmhouse which they could not sell because of Salem. Salem proceeds to the farmhouse where he acquires a fur coat, biding his time as Ester called the inspector. Anton leaves after giving Clemens a sedative, and Salem enters his lawyer's room and kills him in his sleep with a lethal injection. Following a visit from the inspector, the bedridden Clemens calls Anton to his home and confronts him about certain inaccuracies during the trial. A local police inspector begins to see foul play and resolves to uncover the truth of the murders and Salem's conviction.

He starts with Emma, arranging the murder to appear that Anton is the killer. Anton Jenks, who accused Salem of the murder.Īs revenge, Salem kills the people he believes responsible for his unfair conviction and subsequent confinement. Driven insane from being institutionalized for the last two years, he reaches his family farm, now run by his younger sisters Emma and Ester and the latter's husband Dr. Salem escapes confinement from the fortress-like asylum in the dead of winter. Salem is an insane asylum inmate after being forced to take an insanity plea when wrongly convicted of murdering his farmhand. The Night Visitor (Swedish title: Papegojan) is a 1971 Swedish psychological thriller film in English, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies and Andrew Keir, and directed by Laslo Benedek.