No./ 19 The multitudes of Max von Sydow
FILM 1: SHAME (1968)
ax von Sydow came to the cinema in the stock company of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman — in , their first collaboration, von Sydow is the raw-faced knight playing chess with Death. They made 11 films together, and most notably , in which he is a failed musician in a troubled marriage, struggling on a farm as war causes the breakdown of society. Filmed and released while the war in Vietnam raged, it reflected the real-life conflict through themes of shame and moral decline.
