Stockholm Neighbors Trying to Evict Ingmar Bergman from Apartment
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Perhaps they could settle this with a game of chess.
Neighbors of director Ingmar Bergman want him to give up the rented one-room apartment where he wrote “The Seventh Seal.”
“There are young people who need this apartment more than Bergman does,” Joakim Gronwall, the owners’ legal representative, said Friday. Used only occasionally by Bergman as a writing studio, the room is empty most of the time.
But Bergman, 76, is not about to give up the apartment that he has had for 45 years in the fashionable Ostermalm district. He wrote some of his biggest films there, including “Fanny and Alexander” and “The Seventh Seal,” in which a knight played by Max von Sydow has to win a chess game with Death to save himself.
In a letter to the owners, disclosed Friday by the newspaper Expressen, Bergman wrote: “I do not under any circumstances accept being thrown out.”
He has appealed the notice of eviction he received in December. Gronwall said a hearing is scheduled for April.
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