A long-time collaborator with Ingmar Bergman as an actor, scriptwriter and stage director, Josephson successfully branched out into international roles in the 1980s, in such films as Philip Kaufman's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and Istvan Szabo's "Hanussen" (both 1988), and notably as the anguished protagonist of Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Sacrifice" (1986). Erland Josephson's work with Bergman dates back to the late 1930s when they began working together in the theatre. He went on to appear in eight Bergman films, most notably "Cries and Whispers" (1972), in which he was the doctor,
