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Director's Statement
"The unfaithfulness portrayed by Ingmar Bergman in his new film script is not a conscious unfaithfulness - not an act of will. To live in a state of unfaithfulness at the turn of the millennium is simply a way of life that more and more people choose to live. The moral dictates disappear. Two men and a woman desire to `play' an `adult game': let us love a little dangerously, let us be happy together, let us forget what is good and what is evil.
Then, suddenly, everything collapses. Tragedy. All are unfaithful to one another. But, as I see it, the victim is the child; she who has been used in the adults' own game. We follow the three in their love-making dance - and witness the child that sits in the middle without understanding her own role. We also witness the old Bergman who, once upon a time, was the leading figure in the love-making' dance but is now in his study, feeling pangs of conscience for what he did to the woman he loved then.
Faithless is based an a real event in Ingmar Bergman's life. He tried to write about this for many years but was only able to do so when he found the seedbed for the script in the charac-ter and temperament of an actress. It was she who brought the situation to life for him, she embodied the role for him. This is what our film is about. Erland Josephson plays the older Bergman. Lena Endre plays an actress who visits him during the writing of the script. She also plays the woman he loved. Krister Henriksson plays the lover and Thomas Hanzon is her world-famous married husband. I, Liv Ullmann, am the director and - as I see it -the light in the story is that we can forget the hours that were full of suffering. What we must never forget is what this taught us."